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Author Mossman, Carol A.

Title Writing with a vengeance : the Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution / Carol Mossman.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (195 pages : illustrations, portrait).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series University of Toronto romance series
University of Toronto romance series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.
Contents The wages of shame -- Worlds apart: mapping prostitution and the demi-monde -- Fictions of prostitution -- La Sapho, or staging vengeance -- Plotting exoneration -- Chabrillan's final novels, or the uses of fiction.
Summary Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Celeste Venard, later the Countess de Chabrillan.
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Subject Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism and interpretation.
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
Chabrillan, Céleste de.
Chabrillan, Céleste de.
Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
Authors, French.
Chronological Term 19th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Courtesans -- France -- Biography.
Courtesans.
France.
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: 9780802096913
ISBN 9781442697775 (electronic book)
1442697776 (electronic book)
9781442697195 (electronic book)
1442697199 (electronic book)
9780802096913 (print)
0802096913