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Presents the many sides of the French writer and novelist Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, who became simply Colette, and remained the center of Parisian social and cultural life for fifty years.

Personal reminiscences.

A biography of the celebrated French writer offers a collection of anecdotes, previously unpublished correspondence and photographs, in an account of the woman, the author, and her work.

Katherine Mansfield burst upon the London literary scene in 1908 with her short stories appearing in the sophisticated magazines of the modernist movement. John Middleton Murry, was a young novelist with whom she eventually married. Writer George Eliot, born Mary Anne Evans, was thirty five when she ran off with George Henry Lewes, a writer of potboiler novels, popular philosophy and biography, who also happened to be married to another woman. The...

Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.