Rachilde
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Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died on April 4, 1953.
She is considered to be a pioneer of anti-realistic drama and a participant in the Decadent movement.
Rachilde was married to Alfred Vallette.
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Her significant works include:
- 1884, Monsieur Vénus (Brussels: Auguste Brancart, 1884[1] in two "first" editions;[2][3] Paris: Flammarion, 1977)
- 1885, Queue de poisson (Brussels: Auguste Brancart, 1885[1])
- 1885, Nono (Paris: Mercure de France, 1997)
- 1887, La Marquise de Sade (Paris: Mercure de France, 1981)
- 1892, L'Araignée de Cristal
- 1893, L'animale (Paris: Mercure de France, 1993)
- 1899, La tour d'amour (Paris: Mercure de France, 1994)
- 1900, La Jongleuse (Paris: Des femmes, 1982)
- 1934, Mon étrange plaisir (Paris: Éditions Joëlle Losfeld, 1993)
[edit] References
- Katharina M. Wilson, Katharina J. Wilson: An encyclopedia of continental women writers, Taylor & Francis, 1991, ISBN 0-8240-8547-7
- Melanie Hawthorne: Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism, University of Nebraska Press, 2001, ISBN 0803224028
- Diana Holmes: Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer, New York, Berg, 2001, ISBN 1-85973-555-X [1]
- Julie Lokis: Deadly Desires: Widowhood and Perverse Female Sexuality in Rachilde's Fiction (PhD Thesis, RHUL), 2008
- Fisher, Dominique D. (Spring-Summer 2003). "A propos du "Rachildisme" ou Rachilde et les lesbiennes". Nineteenth-Century French Studies (University of Nebraska Press) 31 (3&4): 297–310. doi:10.1353/ncf.2003.0014. ISSN 0146-7891. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/nineteenth_century_french_studies/v031/31.3fisher.html.
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