Åkerlund, Ingrid

About the author: Ingrid Åkerlund was Director of Studies at the University of Stockholm, Department of Romance Languages. After her retirement she continued working as an independent scholar. She received her PhD in French at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Sixteenth Century French Women Writers

2003 0-7734-6666-5
This study describes the ideas and works of women, mostly poets, who all had links to Marguerite d’Angoulême. Anne Malet de Graville was lady in waiting at the court of Claude de France, and made adaptations of two old texts. The Lyonnese school produced poets. Jeanne de Jussie, a Catholic nun, was driven out of Switzerland to a convent in Annecy, France, where she became abbess. She wrote a book wherein she described the horror of the persecution. Marie Dentière was a former abbess who abandoned her Catholic faith and wrote two books showing her as a strong defender of women. Camille de Morel belonged to an illustrious French family, and wrote poetry in Latin. This study provides biographies and studies of the surviving works of these women writers.