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A01=Colette
albert camus
alison bechdel
anais nin
audrey hepburn
Author_Colette
bonjour tristesse
books for older women
break of day colette
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cheri colette
classic
claudine at school
colette claudine
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ernest hemingway
feminism
film as film
forthcoming
france
gigi colette
historical romance
in praise of older women
literary fiction
love after love
marriage
on a beautiful day
paris library
sex love marriage
short stories
the beautiful and the damned
the great gatsby
the pursuit of love nancy mitford
womans prize fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781529983609
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France’s outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthier-Villas (Willy). By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. They were an instant success. Colettte left Willy in 1906 and worked in music-halls as an actor and dancer. She had a love affair with Napoleon’s niece, married twice more, had a baby at 40 and at 47. Her writing, which included novels, portraits, essays and a large body of autobiographical prose, was admired by Proust and Gide. She was the first woman President of the Académie Goncourt, and when she died, aged 81, she was given a state funeral and buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
