- girl, standing up to the restrictions of society. In
- letters, Sand's friends often addressed her as Lelia and in her own letters and journals she admitted that Lelia was in part an autobiographical tale.
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- Another rising author in the '30s was Delphine Gay (otherwise known as Mme Girardin.) From 1836-1848, she wrote a column, Les Letters Parisiennes, in her husband's newspaper, La Presse. Following other writers like Aurore Dupin (George Sand) and Marie d'Agoult (Daniel Stern) she wrote under the pen name Victomte de Launay.
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- 1836 also marked the year that Gazette Des Femmesbegan publication. Unlike the women writers ofTribune des Femmes, the Gazette was written by an elite upper class of both male and female bourgeois. Every Thursday the editors and subscribers would get together to discuss the motives and political viewpoints of the paper. Amongst those who attended were Hortense Allart, Flora Tristan and Eugenie Niboyer. What is most puzzling still today about theGazette is that the owner and editor of the journal claimed to be step
- brother and sister when in fact, they were lovers. Even stranger is that though the man seemed fully in charge of the paper, he kept it under his mistress' name. Though he expressed interest in making the Gazette a daily paper, so long as it was under the name of a woman, it legally could not be produced more than montly. Many historians still
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Congres Masculino-Foemino-Literaire
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Author unknown (Pritchett)
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The woman on the right, cigar in hand is most likely George Sand. She was notorious for wearing men's clothing and generally acting in ways considered immoral and inappropriate for women of her time. The text under the photo describes this as a meeting of male-female writers. This caricature represents the common assumptions that women writers were rude, vulgar and masculine women. They all appear well dressed but with rather silly and obnoxious expressions on their faces. The artist was obviously not in favor of the growing number of women writers.
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