Adèle Daminois

Adèle Daminois
Born	Angélique Adèle Huvey 21 December 1789 Clermont,
Died	5 March 1876 (aged 86) Paris
Occupation	Novelist, playwright

Adèle Daminois, real name Angélique Adèle Huvey, (21 December 1789 – 5 March 1876) was a French female novelist and playwright. She was Maria Du Fresnay's mother as well as Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay's and Ange Du Fresnay's grandmother.

She is known for her many articles in favor of the emancipation of women and their admission to jobs and honors ^[1] as well as for her lectures at the Athénée des Arts.^[2] She authored novels of manners.

Works

• 1819: Léontine de Werteling, 2 vols.
• 1819: Maria
• 1821: Alfred et Zaïda, 3 vols.
• 1823: Mareska et Oscar, 4 vols.
• 1823: La Chasse au renard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire
• 1824: Lydie, ou la Créole, 3 vols.
• 1825: Charles, ou le Fils naturel, 4 vols.
• 1826: Alaïs, ou la Vierge de Ténédos, short story
• 1827: Mes souvenirs, ou Choix d'anecdotes
• 1832: Une mosaïque, 2 vols.
• 1834: Le Prisonnier de Gisors
• 1836: Le Cloître au XIXème siècle
• 1838: Une âme d'enfer

Bibliography

• Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (p. 474) (Read online)
• Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 812)
• Cecilia Beach, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century, 1994, (p. 100)
• Martine Reid, Des femmes en littérature, 2010, (p. 328)

References

1. Lucia Omacini, Le roman épistolaire français au tournant des lumières, 2003, p. 247
2. Dreyfus et Berthelot, op.cit in reference.