MAS
followed up her interest in the idea of religious orders for women by publishing at BristolManual of la mère Agnès
; or, A gift from an abbess to her nuns.
MAS
pruned and updated the text (in its original form of a letter more than a hundred pages long addressed to My Reverend Mother on Christmas Eve, 1667—that is, to Agnès Artaud
). Schimmelpenninck felt...
Textual Features
Hope Mirrlees
HM
sets her narrative during a period of female learning and literary productivity in seventeenth-century France. Madeleine Toqueville, a young girl, moves with her parents from their provincial home to Paris, where Madeleine's erotic...
Timeline
1602: Angélique Arnaud was still a child when,...
Building item
1602
Angélique Arnaud
was still a child when, because of the eminence of her family, she was appointed abbess of the convent of Port Royal
in France; she began to reform the convent after her...
