Rachilde and French Women's Authorship

Under the assumed name Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery (1860–1953) wrote over sixty works of fiction, drama, poetry, memoir, and criticism, including Monsieur Vénus , one of the most famous examples of decadent fiction. She was closely associated with the literary journal Mercure de France , inspired parts of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray , and mingled with all the literary lights of the day. Yet for all that, very little has been written about her. Melanie C. Hawthorne corrects this over