Françoise-Thérèse Aumerle de Saint-Phalier Dalibard (died 1757) was a French novelist and playwright. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Mlle S*** and Mlle de St. Ph***.[1]
Life edit
Françoise-Thérèse Aumerle de Saint-Phalier was born in Paris in the early 1720s. Her father died when she was young, and her mother raised her, encouraging her to pursue her literary interests. With a reputation as both pretty and intelligent, she married the physicist Thomas-François Dalibard.[2]
Works edit
- Le Porte-Deuille, or Lettres historiques. 2 vols., London, 1749.
- Les Caprices du sort, ou Histoire d'Emilie. 2 vols., Paris, 1750.
- Recueil des Poesies. Amsterdam, 1751.
- La Rivale confidente, comedie en 3 acts et en prose. Performed by the Comedie-Italienne, 1752.
- Murat et Truquia, 1752.
References edit
- ^ Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah, eds. (2006). "Dalibard, Françoise-Thérèse Aumerle De Saint-Phalier (d. 1757)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages.
- ^ Kennedy, Theresa Varney (2018). Women's Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women's Theater (1650–1750). Routledge. ISBN 9781317153368.