Akerlund, Ingrid

Sixteenth Century French Women Writers: Marguerite D'Angouleme, Anne de Graville, the Lyonnese School, Jeanne de Jussie, Marie Dentiere, Camille de Morel [Studies in French Literature, 67]

Edwin Mellen Press, September 2003. Hardcover. 188pp. Perfectbound in printed hard covers. Ex-library; exceedingly clean and sharp with sound binding and no evidence of use. Shipped professionally in a box. 'describes the ideas and works of women, mostly poets, who all had links to Marguerite d'Angouleme. Anne Malet de Graville was lady in waiting at the court of Claude de France, and made adaptations of two old texts. The Lyonnese School produced poets. Jeanne de Jussie, a Catholic nun, was driven out of Switzerland to a convent in Annecy, France, where she became abbess. She wrote a book where in she described the horror of the persecution. Marie Dentiere was a former abbess who abandoned her Catholic faith and wrote two books showing her as a strong defender of women. Camille de Morel belonged to an illustrious French family, and wrote poetry in Latin. This study provides biographies and studies of the surviving works of these women writers.'. VERY GOOD. Item #514459
ISBN: 0773466665

Price: $75.00