Scudéry

American  

[sky-dey-ree] / skü deɪˈri /

noun

1. Magdeleine de 1607–1701, French novelist.

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Example Sentences

Harris’ gendered question is visually framed within Scudéry’s pioneering discourse, which immediately preceded the Age of Enlightenment.

From Los Angeles Times

The subversive genre incorporated motifs and tropes from classical myth, the codes of medieval chivalry, the fables of La Fontaine and novels by the early feminist French writers Mademoiselle de Scudéry and Madame la Fayette.

From The Guardian

Philippe Sellier, a literature professor at Paris IV university, added that Madame de La Fayette, along with the aristocratic writers Madame de Sévigné and Mademoiselle de Scudéry, formed what he called a “feminine avant-garde”.

From The Guardian

The map, published in 1654 in the first part of Madeleine de Scudery's novel "Clelie", featured on a skirt and dress.

From Reuters

The subject was familiar in the 17th and 18th centuries when it was used, most famously by the French novelist Madeleine de Scudéry, as a guarded critique of absolute monarchy.

From The Guardian