Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez

Severine Genieys-Kirk (University of Edinburgh)

Ed. by Síofra Pierse, University College Dublin
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.04: French Writing and Culture: Eighteenth-Century and the Enlightenment, 1700-1800.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Jenny Mander (University of Cambridge), Síofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 22 Nov 1684
Died 28 Dec 1776

Places

Born in France
Active in France

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Gomez's Works

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Madeleine-Angélique Poisson de Gomez (Paris, Saint-Sulpice, 22 November 1684, Saint Germain-en-Laye, 28 December 1776) first made a name for herself with the publication of her tragedy

Habis

in 1714, recorded as one of the most successful plays at the Comédie-Française with a total of 40 performances between 1714 and 1732 (Bouchard and McNeil Arteau, 2022

)

. Such success might be considered a feat of prowess for any playwright in ancien régime France. After a short period in the male-dominated dominion of dramaturgy, her publication of

Histoire secrète de la conquête de Grenade

[A Secret History of the Conquest of Granada] in 1719 was the beginning of her career as a writer of fiction. She turned to a genre favoured by late seventeenth-century French women writers, that of the

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Citation: Genieys-Kirk, Severine. "Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 October 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14416, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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