Books by Melanie C. Hawthorne

An account of Rachilde's writing that illustrates important questions in feminist literary theory as well as significant features of turn-of-the-century French society. It illuminates nineteenth-century publishing practices and rivalries, including authorial manipulations of the market for sexually suggestive literature.

Explores the intriguing life of the real d'Estoc, explaining why others came to doubt the "experts" and following the threads of evidence that the latter overlooked