Madeleine de scudery
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Madeleine de Scudery was a French novelist born in 1607 in Le Havre, France. She was orphaned at a young age and received an extensive education from her uncle, an ecclesiastic, where she studied various subjects. In 1637, she joined her brother Georges in Paris where he introduced her to literary salons. During this time, she began her writing career publishing several novels. Her most notable work was Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus, a massive ten volume historical romance novel published from 1648 to 1653 that was hugely popular. She died in 1701 in Paris.
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- 3. Madeleine de Scudery Born November 15, 1607 in Lavre Died June 2, 1701 interred in the Parisian Church of Saint Nicholas-des-Champs
- 4. Madeleine de Scudery Orphaned by age 6 Scudery entered in to the care of her uncle. An ecclesiastic who provided her with an extensive education. She studied reading, writing, drawing, painting, music and dancing. She received instructions in in the practical arts of medicine, agriculture and domestic economy.
- 5. Madeleine de Scudery Her most notable achievement was mastery of Spanish and Italian. Scudery also began her philosophical initiation with the reading of Montaigne who would influence her later sympathy with skepticism, and Plutarch who introduced her to the Stoic philosophy of reason and virtue. In 1637 Scudery joined her brother Georges at his residence in Paris.
- 6. Madeleine de Scudery A burgeoning playwright Georges introduces his sister to literary salons of Paris. During the Rambouillet years Scudery launched her own literary career printed under her brother name Georges, she published a historical novel, Ibrahim or the Ilustrious Basa in 1641 and Illustrious Women or Heroic Harangues in 1642. With the publication of Artamene or the Great Cyrus,
- 7. Madeleine de Scudery A novel printed in ten volumes from 1648 to 1653. One of the worlds longest novels, containing more than two million words, the work attracted a broad European reading public still avid for serial historical romances. In 1651 she was involved in a dispute over the relative merit of Isaac de Benerades sonnet Job and Vincent Voitures sonnet Urania.
- 8. Madeleine de Scudery During the Fronde, (1648-53), the intermittent civil war opposing old aristocratic families and the Parisian Parliament to the monarchy, Scudery sided with the throne, despite her personal admiration for the women who led the military resistance to the Bourdon in certain areas of the country.
- 9. Madeleine de Scudery Conley, John Madeleine de Scudery, The Standford Encyclopedia Philosophy (Summer Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) http://plato.standford.edu /archives/sum2011/entries /madeleine-scudery.