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Biography

Name: Rachilde
Variant Name: Marguerite Eymery Vallette
Birth Date: February 11, 1860
Death Date: April 4, 1953
Nationality: French
Gender: Female

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Biography of Rachilde
5,154 words, approx. 17 pages
Rachilde had a major role in the first Symbolist theaters in Europe, where she was instrumental in getting Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi produced as well as serving as a voice of encouragement for directors, playwrights, and actors. She herself wrote over...
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Biography of Rachilde
2,944 words, approx. 10 pages
The name of Rachilde has long been associated with those of minor decadent writers and symbolists of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. She is also known for her work with the Mercure de France, one of the foremost literary journals, which...


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Rachilde Information
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Rachilde was the nom de plume of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, a French author who was born February 11, 1860 in Périgueux, Périgord, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire and died in April 4, 1953. She is considered to be a...


News and Journals
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Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Doctors, Malady, and creativity in Rachilde.
09/22/2005: 5,723 words, approx. 19 pages
Readers of Rachilde inevitably find in her an uncanny amalgam of acquiescent social views and incendiary attacks on the social and sexual order (Beizer 235-36, 259; Lukacher 144). This contradiction has led some critics to construe the conflictual in her writings not as...
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The Romanic Review
Rachilde, Maurice Barres, and the preface to Monsieur Venus.
01/01/2000: 7,593 words, approx. 25 pages
One of the minor literary scandals of the Parisian New Year in 1889 was the appearance of a new edition of Rachilde's novel of androgyny, Monsieur Venus, prefaced by Maurice Barres. (1) It was not the re-edition of the novel that shocked. Rachilde's...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jennifer Birkett
13,410 words, approx. 45 pages
In the following essay, Birkett provides a psychological interpretation of Rachilde's works.
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Critical Essay by Renee A. Kingcaid
12,735 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Kingcaid argues that the world of Rachilde's literary works is symbolic of the functions of women's bodies, especially the female reproductive system.
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Critical Essay by Margaret Bruzelius
7,235 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Bruzelius examines the figure of the vampiric female as portrayed in the works of Rachilde and Uruguayan author Delmira Augustini.
 


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