Marie de Vichy-Chamrond marquise Du Deffand

In ParisCM met distinguished women as well as men: Suzanne Necker (mother of Germaine de Staël ), the writer Anne-Marie du Bocage , and the hostesses Mme de Geoffrin and Mme du Deffand .

ALM's literary ambitions and her self-publicizing made her respected in and around Bath but ridiculed and despised in London. Mme du Deffand found both her and her husband ennuyeux.Frances Burney called...

Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...

The book bears in various details the influence of Jane Austen , though its overall project of pious didacticism is at odds with Austen's approach. The title-page quotes Rousseau on the topic of the sensitive...

Notices in the British Review and other English journals were fairly appreciative, but quick to compliment British women writers at the expense of the French, as if the book had been a challenge to their...

EM published with her name her translation of The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand.

MB built on her earlier work as editor of Horace Walpole by editing and publishing in four volumes the letters written to him by one of his liveliest correspondents, Madame Du Deffand . Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury)

She had been invited to edit and publish these letters by their current owner, the Duke of Devonshire (to whose sisters she was particularly close). At first this work made an intellectual occupation for her...