...This chapter examines Madame de Villedieu's novel on the memoirs of the life of Henriette-Sylvie de Molière. The wife of the financier, Madame de Molière, was an attractive woman and had a good deal of wit. The Marquis de Birague was a man of noble lineage, gifted with many good qualities...

...This chapter examines the life of Marie-Catherine Desjardins, known as Madame de Villedieu, a prolific writer who not only played an important role in the evolution of the early modern novel in France, but also wrote poetry and plays. Her pseudo-autobiographical novel, Memoirs of the Life...

... tragic, derived largely from the works of Madame de Lafayette; second, the novel of adventure – usually comic, amatory, and in female voice – derived from those of Madame de Villedieu; third, the novel of comic city romance derived from the works of Paul Scarron and Antoine Furetière. Across these forms...

... of the early eighteenth century, from Marie de Gournay to Anne Dacier, by way of Madeleine de Scudéry, Antoinette Deshoulières, Madame de Villedieu, Anne de La Roche-Guilhen, Catherine Bernard, Charlotte-Rose Caumont de La Force, Henriette-Julie de Murat, Marie-Catherine d Aulnoy, and Marie-Jeanne L Héritier...

...Women Writing Antiquity. Helena Taylor, Oxford University Press. © Helena Taylor (2024). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192870445.003.0004 This chapter examines the relationship between the literary market, reception of antiquity, and an author’s career by focusing on Madame de Villedieu...

...This chapter treats two fictional versions—histoires galantes—of the story of Ovid’s life: Madame de Villedieu’s Les Exilez de la cour d’Auguste (1672–8) and Anne de la Roche-Guilhen’s Histoire des Favorites (1697). It develops two main arguments...

...Known as Madame de Villedieu, Marie-Catherine Desjardins (ca. 1640–1683) was a prolific writer who played an important role in the evolution of the early modern French novel. One of the earliest women to write for a living, she defied cultural convention by becoming an innovator and appealing...