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Bernard, Catherine (c. 1662–1712) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
..., Catherine ( c. 1662–1712 ). A relative of the Corneille brothers and a convert to Catholicism ( 1685 ), she published tragedies, notably Brutus ( 1691 ), and historical fiction ( Le Comte d'Amboise , 1689 ; Inès de Cordoue , 1696 ). Her psychological novel Les Malheurs de l'amour ( 1687 ) was highly praised by Fontenelle . The Académie Française awarded her poetry numerous prizes; the Ricovrati Academy of Padua elected her a member. [ Joan Dejean...
Bernard, Catherine (1663–1712?) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
..., Catherine ( 1663–1712? ), French novelist , playwright , and poet . Born in Rouen to a comfortable Huguenot family, she moved to Paris to pursue her literary interests. Bernard wrote four historical novels, a short story, and two plays, all of which were well received in her time and continue to be appreciated for their stylistic and psychological depth. Her novel Inès de Cardoue ( 1696 ) not only features two fairy tales, but also formulates what is considered to be the fundamental aesthetic principle for the 17th- and 18th-century French ...
Bernard, Catherine (1663–1712?) Reference library
Lewis C. Seifert
The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.)
..., Catherine ( 1663–1712? ) French novelist , playwright , and poet . Born in Rouen to a comfortable Huguenot family, she moved to Paris to pursue her literary interests. Bernard wrote four historical novels, a short story, and two plays, all of which were well received in her time and continue to be appreciated for their stylistic and psychological depth. Her novel Inès de Cardoue ( 1696 ) not only features two fairy tales, but also formulates what is considered to be the fundamental aesthetic principle for the 17th- and 18th-century French conte...
Catherine Bernard
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Ralph Houlbrooke
The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (2 ed.)
... (ed.), Women in English Society, 1500–1800 ( 1985 ), Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall , Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780–1850 ( 1987 ), Anne Laurence , Women in England, 1500–1760: A Social History ( 1996 ), Sara Heller Mendelson and Patricia Crawford , Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720 ( 1998 ), Barbara J. Harris , English Aristocratic Women, 1450–1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers ( 2002 ), Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (...
Design Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...inspect a changing display of dinner services laid out on tables and vases set against the walls. The urbane presence of his partner Bentley undoubtedly contributed to its success. In 1774 visitors flocked to see the 952-piece dinner and dessert service ordered by the Empress Catherine of Russia and decorated with hand-painted views of English architectural landmarks and beauty spots. In 1790 they came to marvel at the copy made in Jasper after the Roman cut-glass Barberini or Portland Vase. The original had been acquired by Sir William Hamilton , who sold...
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
...was famous across Europe. In the northern Netherlands, there was almost no book illumination before 1400 . Utrecht, like Bruges, became important from about the 1430s , with painters such as the Masters of Zweder van Culemborg and the supreme, but not prolific, Master of Catherine of Cleves, illuminator of the eponymous book of hours (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 917 and M. 945). Later in the century, distinctive styles of Dutch illumination and coloured penwork point to notable production in Delft, Haarlem, and almost certainly Zwolle, in the...
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way of the cross
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blood of Christ
Johann Karl August Musäus
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feminism and fairy tales
Tuileries
