Scudery

Just in case there are any questing producers reading this, may I put in a plea for one of them to make a film of ETA Hoffman's Mademoiselle de Scudery, in which a spry and still glamorous 73-year-old lady novelist and poet at the court of Louis XIV singlehandedly solves a case of multiple murder and saves an innocent man from the guillotine.

Spotted: an older woman on screen Anne Billson 2010

I have done some research on de Scudery for a novel.

The lake of indifference « Jahsonic 2007

The taste for pen-portraits, which originated in the romances of Mlle. de Scudery, and received a fresh impulse from this novel and personal application, spread rapidly among all classes.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Scudery arose with a vainglorious and pedantic air; and, unrolling upon the table a sort of geographical chart tied with blue ribbons, he himself showed the lines of red ink which he had traced upon it.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

But Mlle. de Scudery retained the position which her brilliant gifts and literary fame had given her, and was the center of a choice circle of friends until

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Scudery, as well as in the romances which reflected their sentiments and pictured their manners.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

"Well, Madame," resumed Scudery, "I now declare it in your house: this work, printed under my name, is by my sister -- she who translated 'Sappho' so agreeably."

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Mlle. de Scudery and Mme. de La Fayette did not monopolize the sentiment of their time, but they refined and exalted it.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

All that I have read in Mademoiselle Scudery, or in Madame de Lafayette, is flat, compared with what the prince himself said to me; but perhaps this may all be nothing more than simple politeness.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It is a literature peculiarly adapted to the flexibility and fine perception of the French mind, and one in which it has been preeminent, from the analytic but diffuse Mlle. de Scudery, and the clear, terse, spirited Cardinal de Retz, to the fine, penetrating, and exquisitely finished Sainte-Beuve, the prince of modern critics and literary artists.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason