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...BOOK/AUTHOR] MEMOIRS OF HADRIAN, Marguerite Yourcenar...
Among writers, you forgot Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer and the two great Marguerites, Duras and Yourcenar. FRANCOISE HRADSKY Bethesda...
...Past is formatted like a high school history book. The majority of the text is historical narrative, while smaller sections profile major players in gay and lesbian history like Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Foucault or present excerpts from important and representative texts about the gay experience of the period. The first time Miller mentions an important figure, his or her name is highlighted with bold type. This familiar form makes the book incredibly accessible and straight-forward...
Sources close to the Board of Overseers' Standing Committee on Honorary Degrees said yesterday that the list of recipients included a French woman, prompting speculation that the novelist Simone Well, president of the European Parliament, or Marguerite Yourcenar will receive an honorary. Yourcenar was recently elected to the Academie Francaise, the first woman ever to be honored by that center of the French intellectual establishment...
...admission" of Author Marguerite Yourcenar to the company of "immortals," the Académie Française [Feb. 16], points up the two choices that are open to brilliant women who are praised belatedly and paternalistically. They can either refuse the honor on the ground that it is unacceptable from such groups, or accept it in order to set a precedent for others. Virginia Woolf responded to many universities offering honorary degrees in the first way. Yourcenar has replied in the second. If I were she, I would have suggested where the monkeys might put their peanuts. Judging from your...