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Author Gray, Francine du Plessix.

Title Madame de Staël : the first modern woman / Francine du Plessix Gray.

Publication Info. New York : Atlas & Co. : Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton & Company, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B STAEL, MADAME DE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 DE STAEL MAD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B STAEL MADAME DE G    Check Shelf
Description 248 pages ; 19 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-243) and index.
Summary Madame de Staël - writer, salonnière, feminist, and sometimes revolutionary - led an astounding life, as Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Gray (Them: A Memoir of Parents; At Home with the Marquis de Sade) skillfully depicts. Gray covers de Staël's entire life, from childhood to her death at 51, accurately portraying her social and political milieus.
Subject Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817.
Women intellectuals -- France -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- France -- Biography.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
ISBN 9781934633175 hardback
1934633178 hardback
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