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24 Mar 2005 06:18:06 PM |
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OT: Maria Fairweather |
A tempest in petticoats
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3D3764282
Mar 17th 2005
From The Economist print edition
JUST reading about the life of Germaine Necker, or Madame de Sta=EBl as
she later became, is an exhausting business. She talked, wrote novels,
plays and political treatises, travelled widely and had affairs enough
for two or three lifetimes. Her social life often sounds like what
might happen if a whole shelf of Penguin Classics grew arms and legs
and held a cocktail party: Goethe and Schiller were invited in Germany,
Byron and Coleridge in England. But she was also a determined political
intriguer at an exceptionally interesting time, a player and observer
in a world that was generally closed to women.
Madame de Sta=EBl
By Maria Fairweather
Carroll & Graf; 400 pages; $30.
Constable & Robinson; =A325
Maria Fairweather
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