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Article: From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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From Mother and Daughter: Poems, Dialogues, and Letters of Les Dames des Roches. Ed. and trans. by ANNE R. LARSEN. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. 319 pp. $24. ISBN 978-0-226-72338-9.
Madeleine (1520-87) and Catherine (1542-97) des Roches achieved celebrity in their day as a mother-daughter writing partnership. They took pride in their exceptional status as published female writers who excelled in such diverse genres as poetry, translation, and pastoral drama. With the Missives (1586), they became the first French women to publish their private letters. In From Mother and Daughter Anne R. Larsen ...