(030160) Francis, Claude, and Gontier, Fernande. Creating Colette, Volume Two: From Baroness To Woman Of Letters, 1912-1954. South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 298 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (18 73-1954) was a French writer. Her first four Claudine novels (1900–03) , the reminiscences of a libertine ingenue, were published by her first husband, an important critic, under his pen name, Willy. Her novels of the pleasures and pains of love are remarkable for their exact evocation of sounds, smells, tastes,textures, and colors. In her highly eventful life, she freely flouted convention and repeatedly scandalized the French public, but by her late years she had become a national icon ISBN: 1883642760 (Colette, Authors)
