Louise d’Épinay and the Correspondance littéraire’s Imagined Community
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- S&F Online: Scholar & Feminist Online
- Magazine Year
- 2018
- Magazine Number
- 1
- Creator
- Caron, Mélinda
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, tijdschriften, verlichting, Frankrijk, 18e eeuw
- Description
- The only woman to contribute regularly to the Correspondance littéraire was Louise d’Épinay, who assisted both directors for almost thirty years from 1755 to 1783. In this essay, the author argues that Mme ***’s anonymous presence in the Correspondance littéraire helped founder and first director Grimm to establish his reputation through her appealing representation of the worldly French society to which he belonged, and to create an ideal community in which Parisian philosophers and foreign nobles could communicate freely.