woman of letters

American  

noun

1. a woman engaged in literary pursuits, especially a professional writer.

2. a woman of great learning; scholar.

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woman of letters

A demimondaine with a shocking reputation, by the time of her death, in 1954, Colette was an institution, the first French woman of letters ever honored with a state funeral.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

His parents, Sir William Wilde, a distinguished eye surgeon, and his mother, a noted woman of letters nicknamed Speranza, hosted Dublin’s leading artistic salon.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021

Carolyn See, an author, teacher and colorful woman of letters whose scrappy humor and survivor's wisdom spiced her novels about the disaster-prone fantasyland that was her California, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2016

A proto-feminist woman of letters, impresario and poet in her own right, Morewood strikes us in Shelden’s account as a person of imagination and courage straining against the socially imposed constrictions of her time.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2016

Of Madame de Sévigné, if it were permitted here to make a pun and a paradox, one might justly and descriptively say that she was not a woman of letters, but only a woman of—letters.

From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson

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