Cultivated and influential female writer.
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Examples for "homme de lettres"
Examples for "homme de lettres"
1Had not Victor Hugo left in the hotel-books on the Rhine his designation " homme de lettres"?
2He was an homme de lettres connected with a leading paper, and a deputy in the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees.
3Such examples, no doubt, were familiar to Gustave Rameau, and " homme de lettres" was on the scrap of pasteboard nailed to his door.
4"Tant pis pour Sorrente," said the homme de lettres, carelessly.
5"Monsieur," answered Isaura, rather startled at that question, from a professed homme de lettres, "Eleonora did not live at Sorrento."
1As the world's premier woman of letters, she is a living legend.
2If anyone exemplifies the 21st-century woman of letters it's Lydia Davis.
3No one was ever less consciously a woman of letters.
4Ah, well, you're the woman of letters, Miss Faithfull.
5A woman of letters, perhaps?
6Her most noted woman of letters is Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley, '80, the beloved head of the Department of English Literature.
7She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
8Louise Colet, a woman of letters, whose difficult relations with Flaubert are sympathetically touched upon in Pater's celebrated essay on "Style."
9Henceforward she was to be more truly a woman of letters in that her books appealed ostensibly at least only to the reading public.
10My wife likes her hugely, and for my part, I had no idea that there was such a sensible woman of letters in the world.
11Co-curator of the monthly Women of Letters occasion in Melbourne.
Translations for woman of letters