Marie-Anne de Bovet

Marie-Anne de Bovet (12 February 1855 – 25 February 1943) 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" (9 December 1897), where she attacked Maupassant and Proudhon's speeches on women, and "The Eternal Feminine" (22 December 1897), 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 (three books) and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.

She published her last work, , 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, 1889 Trois mois en Irlande, article illustré extrait du Tour du Monde, Hachette, 1891 La 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, 1898 Cracovie, H. Laurens, Paris, 1910 L’Algérie, E. de Boccard, Paris, 1920 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française. Alger-Djelfa, Laghouat-Ghardaïa et l’Heptapole de M’Zab, Imprimerie Algérienne, 1924 De Paris aux dunes du Souf et retour en vingt-et-un jours, Georges Lacan, 1924 Monographie du tapis algérien'''', édité par le Gouvernement général de l’Algérie, 1930 Le désert apprivoisé, Randonnées au Sahara', Nouvelles Éditions Argo, Paris, 1933 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française. La Grande Pitié du Sahara, Plon, 1935 Notice sur les tapis algériens et autres industries indigènes, Imprimerie E. Pfister?

Novels

Terre d’Emeraude, Ollendorff, 1893 Confessions d’une fille de trente ans, Lemerre, 1895 Roman de femmes, Lemerre, 1896 Confessions conjugales, Lemerre, 1896 Partie du pied gauche, Lemerre, 1897 Parole jurée, Lemerre, 1897 Par orgueil, Lemerre, 1898 Petites rosseries, Lemerre, 1898 Pris sur le vif, Lemerre, 1899 Marionnettes, Lemerre, 1899 Courte folie, Lemerre, 1901 Monsieur Victor, roman publié par Le Monde Moderne, Albert Quantin, Paris, 1901 Maîtresse royale, Lemerre, 1901 La Cadette, Armand Colin, 1901 La Belle Sabine, Lemerre, 1902 Ballons rouges, Lemerre, 1903 Autour de l’étendard, Lemerre, 1904 Ame d’Argile, Lemerre, 1904 Contre l’impossible, Lemerre, 1905 Plus fort que la Vie, Lemerre, 1905 Noces blanches, Lemerre, 1906 Le Beau Fernand, Hachette, 1906 - Prix Montyon de l'Académie française. La repentie, Lemerre, 1907 Et l’Amour triomphe, Nilsson, 1907 Après le Divorce, Lemerre, 1908 La jolie Princesse, Lemerre, 1908 La folle Passion, Lemerre, 1909 La Dame à l’oreille de velours, Lemerre, 1911 La Terre refleurira, Lemerre, 1913 Le Fils de l’autre, Lemerre, 1914 La Dernière de sa Race, Lemerre, 1924 La Dame d’Antibes, Lemerre, 1927 Veuvage blanc, édition de la Mode nationale, 1930 L’Homme rouge'''', Nilsson, date? Défends ta femme contre la tentation', Nilsson, date?