CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Femina, La Vie Heureuse and the Invention of the Femme Moderne

PART I. READERS AND WRITERS

Chapter 1. Chères lectrices: Cinderella Powder, Poet Queens and the Woman Reader

Chapter 2. Beyond the Bluestocking: Images of Work-Life Balance in the Belle Epoque

Chapter 3. The “Oriental” Authoress: Myriam Harry and Lucie Delarue-Mardrus

Chapter 4. The Writer Writes Back

PART II. TEXTS AND CONTEXTS

Chapter 5. A New Man for the New Woman? Belle Epoque Literary Feminism and the French Marriage Plot

Chapter 6. Jean Lorrain’s Women’s Magazine: Emma Bovary Meets Celebrity Culture

Chapter 7. A Belle Epoque Media Storm: Marcelle Tinayre and the Legion of Honor

Conclusion: Imagining the Académicienne

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index