Anne de Graville and Women's Literary Networks in Early Modern France

First detailed reconstruction of Anne de Graville's library, establishing her as one of the most well-read and erudite poets of the period. WINNER: 2024 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender Book Award In the 1520s, the French noblewoman Anne de Graville composed two poetic works, based on older, canonical, male-authored texts: Giovanni Boccaccio's Teseida and Alain Chartier's Belle dame sans mercy . The first, the Beau roman , she offered to Claude, queen of France and wife of