Madeleine de Scudéry (1607 - 1701)

Short name Madeleine de Scudéry
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First name Madeleine
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Alternative name Sapho , La Muse du Marais , Magdeleine de Scudéri
Date of birth 1607
Date of death 1701
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Sex Female
Place of birth Le Havre (Normandie, FRA)
Place of death Paris
Lived in France
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Related to Pierre-Daniel Huet , Georges de Scudéry , Marie Dupré , Catherine Descartes , Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon
Bibliography Mentioned in: - La Porte 1769 I, 142-286 - Alletz - Sauvigny - Du Pin - Guillaume - La Croix - La Forge - Keralio - Boudier de Villemert 1778 - Briquet 1804 - Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, IV, 138 et 140 (José-Luis Diaz, "Sainte-Beuve chez les Muses", in Romantisme no 77, 1992, p.79 n.11) - Jacquinet, Les femmes de France poètes et prosateurs, 1886 - Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886 - Desplantes et Pouthier, 1890 - Larnac, Histoire de la littérature féminine en France, 1921 - Moulin, La poésie féminine, 1966, p.172 - Mitterand, Littérature XVIIe 1987 p. 56, 61-63, 89-93 (50, 51, 59, 80, 273) - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992. - Lettres européennes (Dutch version 1994) II, 468-70, 481. - Debeljak, Pregled, 1912 Cf. - DeJean, Tender Geographies, 1991. - Anne E. Duggan, Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005.
Provisional Notes Often described as ugly, @beauty Died 02-06-1701. Orphaned at young age. "was given a chance to learn" (Boursier, "Feminine voice"); marked by the Préciosité Deaf later in life.
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Spouse Scudéri, Magdeleine de
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Memberships Accademia dei Ricovrati (Padua)
Place(s) of Residence France