| Short name |
Anne-Marie du Boccage |
| VIAF |
|
| First name |
Anne-Marie |
| Birth name |
Boccage |
| Married name |
|
| Alternative name |
Anne-Marie du Bocage
,
Anne-Marie Duboccage
|
| Date of birth |
1710 |
| Date of death |
1802 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
Rouen (FRA) |
| Place of death |
- |
| Lived in |
France
|
| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie
,
Charles-Albert Demoustier
,
Montagu, Elizabeth
,
Fanny de Beauharnais
|
| Bibliography |
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 |
| Provisional Notes |
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. |