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From Mother and Daughter

Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches

By: Madeleine Roches,Catherine Roches

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From Mother and Daughter

Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches

By: Madeleine Roches,Catherine Roches

Among the best-known and most prolific French women writers of the sixteenth century, Madeleine (1520–87) and Catherine (1542–87) des Roches were celebrated not only for their uncommonly strong mother-daughter bond but also for their bold assertion of poetic authority for women in the realm of belles lettres. The Dames des Roches excelled in a variety of genres, including poetry, Latin and Italian translations, correspondence, prose dialogues, pastoral drama, and tragicomedy; collected in From Mother and Daughter are selections from their celebrated oeuvre, suffused with an engaging and enduring feminist consciousness. Madeleine and Catherine spent their entire lives in civil war–torn Poitiers, where a siege of the city, vandalism, and desecration of churches fueled their political and religious commentary. Members of an elite literary circle that would inspire salon culture during the next century, the Dames des Roches addressed the issues of the day, including the ravages of religious civil wars, the weak monarchy, education for women, marriage and the family, violence against women, and the status of women intellectuals. Through their collaborative engagement in shared public discourse, both mother and daughter were models of moral, political, and literary agency.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226723399

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9780226723396

Selected Poems and Translations

A Bilingual Edition

By: Madeleine de l'Aubespine

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Selected Poems and Translations

A Bilingual Edition

By: Madeleine de l'Aubespine

Madeleine de l’Aubespine (1546–1596), the toast of courtly and literary circles in sixteenth-century Paris, penned beautiful love poems to famous women of her day. The well-connected daughter and wife of prominent French secretaries of state, l’Aubespine was celebrated by her male peers for her erotic lyricism and scathingly original voice. Rather than adopt the conventional self-effacement that defined female poets of the time, l’Aubespine’s speakers are sexual, dominant, and defiant; and her subjects are women who are able to manipulate, rebuke, and even humiliate men. Unavailable in English until now and only recently identified from scattered and sometimes misattributed sources, l’Aubespine’s poems and literary works are presented here in Anna Klosowska’s vibrant translation. This collection, which features one of the first French lesbian sonnets as well as reproductions of l’Aubespine’s poetic translations of Ovid and Ariosto, will be heralded by students and scholars in literature, history, and women’s studies as an important addition to the Renaissance canon.

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168

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University of Chicago Press

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0226141950

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9780226141954

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

By: Madeleine de Scudery

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Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

By: Madeleine de Scudery

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, and she earned a pension from Louis XIV for her writing. Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues is a careful selection of Scudéry's shorter writings, emphasizing her abilities as a rhetorical theorist, orator, essayist, and letter writer. It provides the first English translations of some of Scudéry's Amorous Letters, only recently identified as her work, as well as selections from her Famous Women, or Heroic Speeches, and her series of Conversations. The book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of rhetoric, French literature, and women's studies.

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208

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University of Chicago Press

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0226144127

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9780226144122

Corsica and North Sardinia

By: Madeleine and Stephan Strobel

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Corsica and North Sardinia

By: Madeleine and Stephan Strobel

Corsica and North Sardinia serves as an authoritative guide for sailors navigating the varied and captivating cruising grounds of these islands. From Corsica's exposed and dramatic west to the more gentle eastern coast, and on to the protected and scenic anchorages of the Bouches de Bonifacio and Sardinia's north coast, this new Imray edition ensures sailors are well-prepared for all conditions. Thoroughly revised, it includes up-to-date Imray plans, new photographs, and detailed updates to changes in marina developments and infrastructure. Whether for a holiday charter or for seasoned cruisers, this book from the Royal Cruising Club Pilotage Foundation is a crucial companion for safe and enjoyable sailing in this sought-after Mediterranean cruising ground.

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Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd

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1786794926

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9781786794925

From Mother and Daughter

Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches

By: Madeleine Roches,Catherine Roches

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Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches

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Miracle on 10th Street

And Other Christmas Writings

By: Madeleine L'Engle

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Miracle on 10th Street

And Other Christmas Writings

By: Madeleine L'Engle

Celebrate the season with this beautiful and inspiring collection of thoughtful reflections on Christmas from the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time. For more than seventy years, Madeleine L’Engle’s writing have delighted and inspired readers. In her stories, essays, poems, journal entries, and letters, she returned again and again to the beauty of Christmas, illuminating the holiday with her singular insight and imagination. Miracle on 10th Street includes excerpts from her most cherished works, reflecting on Advent, Incarnation, Epiphany, mystery, and redemption. In these pages, L’Engle points to the marvels and curiosities that fill everyday life. And, as always, she shows herself to be a one-woman force for celebration—fully believing that delight and wonder must mark the life of anyone who sees God’s love at work.

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210

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Convergent Books

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1524759333

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9781524759339

Faites pas de bruit, 'y a un mort

By: Madeleine Champagne

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Faites pas de bruit, 'y a un mort

By: Madeleine Champagne

Qu’est-ce qui peut inciter sept générations de Blanchet à choisir un métier triste à mourir aux yeux du commun des mortels? Quelles sont leurs motivations fondamentales? La morosité ou la vitalité? L’appât du gain ou un souci insatiable de servir le prochain? Le respect de la tradition ou le goût du risque? La routine ou le désir de variété? La facilité ou les défis? Ou encore, au-delà des perceptions, est-ce la passion pour une profession vieille comme le monde et indispensable aux êtres humains?

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300

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FriesenPress

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1039191282

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9781039191280

The Story of Sapho

By: Madeleine de Scudery

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The Story of Sapho

By: Madeleine de Scudery

Ridiculed for her Saturday salon, her long romance novels, and her protofeminist ideas, Madeleine de Scudéry (1607-1701) has not been treated kindly by the literary establishment. Yet her multivolume novels were popular bestsellers in her time, translated almost immediately into English, German, Italian, Spanish, and even Arabic. The Story of Sapho makes available for the first time in modern English a self-contained section from Scudéry's novel Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus, best known today as the favored reading material of the would-be salonnières that Molière satirized in Les précieuses ridicules. The Story tells of Sapho, a woman writer modeled on the Greek Sappho, who deems marriage slavery. Interspersed in the love story of Sapho and Phaon are a series of conversations like those that took place in Scudéry's own salon in which Sapho and her circle discuss the nature of love, the education of women, writing, and right conduct. This edition also includes a translation of an oration, or harangue, of Scudéry's in which Sapho extols the talents and abilities of women in order to persuade them to write.

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189

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University of Chicago Press

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0226144003

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9780226144009

Book's by Madeleine Roches

From Mother and Daughter

From Mother and Daughter

Selected Poems and Translations

Selected Poems and Translations

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

Selected Letters, Orations, and Rhetorical Dialogues

Corsica and North Sardinia

Corsica and North Sardinia

From Mother and Daughter

From Mother and Daughter

Miracle on 10th Street

Miracle on 10th Street

Faites pas de bruit, 'y a un mort

Faites pas de bruit, 'y a un mort

The Story of Sapho

The Story of Sapho

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