Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer by Diana Holmes

Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer

Diana Holmes

224 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction challenging reflective medium-paced
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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus, Marguerite Eymery (pen name Rachilde), an apparently genteel young woman from a provincial bourgeois family, burst onto the French literary scene in 1884 amid scandal. This story of a sadistic ...

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