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“Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.” –Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three,Marc... read full description

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Jun 07, 2010
Heather rated it: 2 of 5 stars
The flap copy calls this a "Romantic novel in every sense of the word," which it is: it's a romance, a love story, and also a story set in the Romantic era, with protagonists who are part of the French Romantic literary/musical/dramatic scene. It's the story of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, first an actress, then a poet, and it's the story of her loves: her ill-fated affairs, her marriage, and her great love for the writer Henri de Latouche. It moves back and forth in time, starting in More...
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