Rage and Fire

A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse

Author: Francine du Plessix Gray
ISBN: 9780671742386

In this ground-breaking biography of a heroic feminist and literary figure, novelist and essayist Francine du Plessix Gray brilliantly resurrects one of the most fascinating women of the nineteenth century. To English-language readers, the flamboyant and beautiful Louise Colet (1810-1876) is best known as Gustave Flaubert's great love; as a central model for Emma Bovary; and as the recipient of Flaubert's most treasured letters, a voluminous six-year correspondence that offers his most eloquent statements on literature and an invaluable chronicle of Madame Bovary's composition. What is less known about Louise Colet is that at the apogee of her career she was, along with George Sand, one of the most famous women writers in France, a prolific author equally fluent in poetry, fiction, historical essays, and journalism. Known as "the Muse", Colet presided over a renowned salon of mid-nineteenth-century Paris. At age twenty-nine she won the poetry prize of the Academie Francaise, and she we

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publish Date: 1994

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