Marie-Anne de Bovet
Marie-Anne de Bovet was a French writer. From 1893 to 1930, she published 35 novels, in addition to other works. Her last work was written in 1935 when she was 80 years old.
Biography
Marie-Anne de Bovet was born in Metz, France. She was the daughter of General Bovet. She married the Marquis de Bois-Hébert but she wrote under her maiden name.
Her writing career began in 1889 by publishing travelogues. Her work appeared in several magazines and newspapers in French and English. She was bilingual. As early as 1888, Bovet frequented the salon of Juliette Adam. She wrote literary criticism in La Nouvelle Revue, and traveled to Ireland on behalf of La République Française, a Gambetta newspaper. She wrote for La Vie Parisienne and the feminist newspaper, La Fronde, founded in 1887 by Marguerite Durand. Here, her articles included "Housewife or Harlot", where she attacked Maupassant and Proudhon's speeches on women, and "The Eternal Feminine", where she rejected the categorization of women. Bovet protested against misogynist prejudice and defended women's intelligence. During the Dreyfus Affair, she wrote for La Libre Parole, a strongly anti-Semitic newspaper. Though she traveled widely, she wrote mainly on Ireland and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.
She published her last work, La Grande Pitié du Sahara, in 1935. One year later, she sold her house in Gien and its furnitures, including numerous autographed first editions. She spent time in Algiers in her later years, up to at least 1939. Her last known address is in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She died in Villejuif hospital on 25 February 1943.
Awards
During her lifetime, she was selected for the Louise Bourbonnaud Prize, which was a cash award established in Paris by Bourbonnaud to be given annually to a French explorer.
Selected works
Travelogues
Lettres d’Irlande, Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1889Trois mois en Irlande, article illustré extrait du Tour du Monde, Hachette, 1891La Jeune Grèce, Société française d’édition d’art L.-H. May, 1897 - Prix Kastner-Boursault de l'Académie française. L’Écosse. Souvenirs et impressions de voyage, Hachette, 1898Cracovie, H. Laurens, Paris, 1910L’Algérie, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1920 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.Alger-Djelfa, Laghouat-Ghardaïa et l’Heptapole de M’Zab, Imprimerie Algérienne, 1924De Paris aux dunes du Souf et retour en vingt-et-un jours, Georges Lacan, 1924Monographie du tapis algérien', édité par le Gouvernement général de l’Algérie, 1930Le désert apprivoisé, Randonnées au Sahara', Nouvelles Éditions Argo, Paris, 1933 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.La Grande Pitié du Sahara, Plon, 1935Notice sur les tapis algériens et autres industries indigènes, Imprimerie E. Pfister, ?
Novels
Terre d’Emeraude, Ollendorff, 1893Confessions d’une fille de trente ans, Lemerre, 1895Roman de femmes, Lemerre, 1896Confessions conjugales, Lemerre, 1896Partie du pied gauche, Lemerre, 1897Parole jurée, Lemerre, 1897Par orgueil, Lemerre, 1898Petites rosseries, Lemerre, 1898Pris sur le vif, Lemerre, 1899Marionnettes, Lemerre, 1899Courte folie, Lemerre, 1901Monsieur Victor, roman publié par Le Monde Moderne, Albert Quantin, Paris, 1901Maîtresse royale, Lemerre, 1901La Cadette, Armand Colin, 1901La Belle Sabine, Lemerre, 1902Ballons rouges, Lemerre, 1903Autour de l’étendard, Lemerre, 1904 Ame d’Argile, Lemerre, 1904Contre l’impossible, Lemerre, 1905Plus fort que la Vie, Lemerre, 1905Noces blanches, Lemerre, 1906Le Beau Fernand, Hachette, 1906 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française.La repentie, Lemerre, 1907Et l’Amour triomphe, Nilsson, 1907Après le Divorce, Lemerre, 1908La jolie Princesse, Lemerre, 1908La folle Passion, Lemerre, 1909La Dame à l’oreille de velours, Lemerre, 1911La Terre refleurira, Lemerre, 1913Le Fils de l’autre, Lemerre, 1914La Dernière de sa Race, Lemerre, 1924La Dame d’Antibes, Lemerre, 1927Veuvage blanc, édition de la Mode nationale, 1930L’Homme rouge', Nilsson, date?Défends ta femme contre la tentation', Nilsson, date?