Adèle Daminois

Adèle Daminois
Adèle Daminois
Born	Angélique Adèle Huvey; 21 December 1789; Clermont,
Died	5 March 1876 (aged 86); Paris
Occupation(s)	Novelist, playwright

Adèle Daminois, real name Angélique Adèle Huvey, (21 December 1789 – 5 March 1876) was a French woman novelist and playwright. She was Maria Du Fresnay's mother as well as Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay's and Ange Du Fresnay's grandmother.

She is known for her many articles in favor of the emancipation of women and their admission to jobs and honors ^[1] as well as for her lectures at the Athénée des Arts.^[2] She authored novels of manners.

Works

1819: Léontine de Werteling, 2 vols.
1819: Maria
1821: Alfred et Zaïda, 3 vols.
1823: Mareska et Oscar, 4 vols.
1823: La Chasse au renard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire
1824: Lydie, ou la Créole, 3 vols.
1825: Charles, ou le Fils naturel, 4 vols.
1826: Alaïs, ou la Vierge de Ténédos, short story
1827: Mes souvenirs, ou Choix d'anecdotes
1832: Une mosaïque, 2 vols.
1834: Le Prisonnier de Gisors
1836: Le Cloître au XIXème siècle
1838: Une âme d'enfer

Bibliography

Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (p. 474) (Read online)
Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 812)
Cecilia Beach, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century, 1994, (p. 100)
Martine Reid, Des femmes en littérature, 2010, (p. 328)

References

^ Lucia Omacini, Le roman épistolaire français au tournant des lumières, 2003, p. 247
^ Dreyfus et Berthelot, op.cit in reference.

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[1] Lucia Omacini, Le roman épistolaire français au tournant des lumières, 2003, p. 247

[2] Dreyfus et Berthelot, op.cit in reference.

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