Word: hammersley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LETTERS FROM MADAME LA MARQUISE DE Sévigné (389 pp.)-Selecfed and translated by Violet Hammersley-Harcourt, Brace...
...brief biographical introduction, British Essayist Violet Hammersley outlines the life that drove Madame de Sévigné to ink. Widowed at 25 when her chronically unfaithful husband was killed in a duel over his latest mistress,* Madame de Sévigné succumbed to the grand passion of possessive mother love for her only daughter. Cold, proud and wildly extravagant, the daughter was a great beauty and Madame de Sévigné married her off to a rich, twice-widowed count. But when her daughter left her side, Madame de Sévigné began carrying a literary...