Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) was the most popular novelist in her time, read in French in volume installments all over Europe and translated into English, German, Italian, and even Arabic. But she was also a charismatic figure in French salon culture, a woman who supported herself through her writing and defended women''s education. She was the first woman to be honored by the French Academy, ...