Women and Moralists: Essays and Portraits

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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, Jules. WOMEN AND MORALISTS. Publisher Alphonse Lemerre, Paris, 1906. Paperbound (without dust jacket), deserving of a fine binding. 340 pages. Collection of essays featuring portraits of notable women and moral figures including Mercier, Henriette of England, The Woman and the Child, Madame de Maintenon, Portuguese Letters, Saint Teresas, Women of the Revolution, Women of the Gospels, Women of America, La Bruyère, Laïs of Corinth and Ninon de Lenclos, Mazarin's Nieces, Letters from a Mother to Her Son, Marie-Antoinette, Vauvenargues, Madame de Montmorency, and portraits of Francis Wey, Madame de Sévigné, Jules Vallès, Henri Rochefort, and Alexandre Dumas Fils, along with studies on Women and Society in the Augustan Age, Women of the 18th Century, and Pope Joan.