Denis Diderot

She became acquainted with most of the intellectual and cultural leaders of French society. She visited Voltaire and Emilie du Châtelet at Cirey in 1738-9. These two, as well as other Enlightenment figures such as...

SL 's preface mentions her responsibility for her family and her spell in debtors' prison, as well as the aversion a woman ought to feel at the necessity of engaging even in a literary contest...

The author's future husband, Samuel Pipe Wolferstan , supposed her to suffer from lack of brains even after he learned she had written a novel. He bought four fine-paper copies, but he had strong reservations...

The Nun reflects the influence of Diderot in its hints of sinister lesbianism. In it a nun accused of heresy is hidden away when still quite young in an underground cell and left to moulder...

AB published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot , Stendhal , Baudelaire , Zola , The BrothersGoncourt , Huysmans.

In this year and the next came her two-volume translation, Voyages and Travels to Brazil, the South Sea, Kamschatka, and Japan, from the German of Langsdorff , as well as a...