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DE GENLIS, Mme. Comtesse (Felicite). Palmyre Et Flaminie, Ou Le Secret.
Paris: Chez Maradan, Librarie, 1821. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo., full contemporary calf, gilt, leather labels, (6), 272; 252pp. Upper hinge of volume one cracked, o/w a very good copy.
Mme De Genlis [1746-1830], born near Autun, was a woman of "encyclopedic information with a mania for instructing others." She "captivated" society after marrying the Comte De Genlis, and became governess to the children of the Duchesse de Chartres, teaching them about the novel while writing and producing plays for their entertainment. Her husband was the first of the Girondins beheaded in 1793 (a fate subsequently shared by her lover Philippe-Egalite). After the death of her husband she emigrated to England and Switzerland, where she supported herself by writing. "She lived on through the Restoration... one of the great ladies of the 18th century. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history..."
$300
DE GENLIS, Mme. Comtesse (Felicite). Palmyre Et Flaminie, Ou Le Secret. Paris: Chez Maradan, Librarie, 1821. In two volumes. First edition. 8vo., full contemporary calf, gilt, leather labels, (6), 272; 252pp. Upper hinge of volume one cracked, o/w a very good copy.
Mme De Genlis [1746-1830], born near Autun, was a woman of "encyclopedic information with a mania for instructing others." She "captivated" society after marrying the Comte De Genlis, and became governess to the children of the Duchesse de Chartres, teaching them about the novel while writing and producing plays for their entertainment. Her husband was the first of the Girondins beheaded in 1793 (a fate subsequently shared by her lover Philippe-Egalite). After the death of her husband she emigrated to England and Switzerland, where she supported herself by writing. "She lived on through the Restoration... one of the great ladies of the 18th century. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history..."
$300
