Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du (1710 - 1802)
Short name | Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du |
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First name | Anne-Marie |
Birth name | Le Page |
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Alternative name | Anne-Marie du Bocage , Anne-Marie Duboccage |
Date of birth | 1710 |
Date of death | 1802 |
Birth date Notes | 22-10-1710 |
Death date Notes | 8-8-1802 |
Flourishing | - |
Sex | Female |
Place of birth | Rouen |
Place of death | Paris |
Lived in | France |
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Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du was ...
related to | Demoustier, Charles-Albert |
related to | Leprince de Beaumont, Marie |
related to | Montagu, Elizabeth |
related to | Beauharnais, Fanny de |
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Memberships | Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon , Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen , Accademia dei Ricovrati (Padua) , Accademia dell' Arcadia (Rome) , Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna |
Place(s) of Residence | France |
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Receptions of Boccage, Anne-Marie Le Page du, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
Mentioned in:
- La Porte 1769 IV, 467-523 (see hyperlink for list)
- Briquet 1804
- Henri Carton, Histoire des femmes ecrivains de la France, 1886
- Larnac, 152, 158, 254
- Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Her play Les Amazones performed in 1749, was the first work by a women to be performed at the Comédie Francaise for some thirty years".
Cf.
Grace Gill-Mark, Une femme de lettres au XVIIIe siècle: Anne Marie du Boccage. Paris, 1927.
Martine Reid and François Bessire (dir.), Forma Venus, Arte Minerva: sur l'oeuvre et la carrière d'Anne-Marie Du Bocage, 2017
8 April 1750 Leprince de Beaumont went to Montagu's salon, where she also met Anne-Marie du Boccage, who noted it in her Lettres anglaises (Robain, Mme Leprince de Beaumont intime, 2004, p. 45)
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Married 1727; widowed 1767.
Husband rich - problems once widowed (Gill-Mark, p. 43)
Travel writer.
Memberships: also Academies of Florence and Cortona.