Adèle Daminois, real name Angélique Adèle Huvey, (21 December 1789 – 5 March 1876) was a French woman novelist and playwright. She was Maria Du Fresnay's mother as well as Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay's and Ange Du Fresnay's grandmother.

Adèle Daminois
Born
Angélique Adèle Huvey

21 December 1789
Died5 March 1876(1876-03-05) (aged 86)
Occupation(s)Novelist, playwright

She is known for her many articles in favor of the emancipation of women and their admission to jobs and honors [1] as well as for her lectures at the Athénée des Arts.[2] She authored novels of manners.

Works

edit
  • 1819: Léontine de Werteling, 2 vols.
  • 1819: Maria
  • 1821: Alfred et Zaïda, 3 vols.
  • 1823: Mareska et Oscar, 4 vols.
  • 1823: La Chasse au renard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire
  • 1824: Lydie, ou la Créole, 3 vols.
  • 1825: Charles, ou le Fils naturel, 4 vols.
  • 1826: Alaïs, ou la Vierge de Ténédos, short story
  • 1827: Mes souvenirs, ou Choix d'anecdotes
  • 1832: Une mosaïque, 2 vols.
  • 1834: Le Prisonnier de Gisors
  • 1836: Le Cloître au XIXème siècle
  • 1838: Une âme d'enfer

Bibliography

edit
  • Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (p. 474) (Read online)
  • Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 812)
  • Cecilia Beach, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century, 1994, (p. 100)
  • Martine Reid, Des femmes en littérature, 2010, (p. 328)

References

edit
  1. ^ Lucia Omacini, Le roman épistolaire français au tournant des lumières, 2003, p. 247
  2. ^ Dreyfus et Berthelot, op.cit in reference.