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Meanings of woman of letters in English

Russian
женщина-литератор
Spanish
mujer de letras
Catalan
dona de lletres

Cultivated and influential female writer.

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женщина-литератор
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Examples for "homme de lettres"
Examples for "homme de lettres"
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Had not Victor Hugo left in the hotel-books on the Rhine his designation " homme de lettres"?
The Parisians — Complete
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He was an homme de lettres connected with a leading paper, and a deputy in the Corps Legislatif for the department of the Hautes-Pyrenees.
Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
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Such examples, no doubt, were familiar to Gustave Rameau, and " homme de lettres" was on the scrap of pasteboard nailed to his door.
The Parisians — Complete
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"Tant pis pour Sorrente," said the homme de lettres, carelessly.
The Parisians — Volume 03
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"Monsieur," answered Isaura, rather startled at that question, from a professed homme de lettres, "Eleonora did not live at Sorrento."
The Parisians — Complete
Usage of woman of letters in English
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As the world's premier woman of letters, she is a living legend.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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If anyone exemplifies the 21st-century woman of letters it's Lydia Davis.
The Irish Times
3
No one was ever less consciously a woman of letters.
The Women of the French Salons
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Ah, well, you're the woman of letters, Miss Faithfull.
The sealed letter
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A woman of letters, perhaps?
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
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Her most noted woman of letters is Katharine Lee Bates, Wellesley, '80, the beloved head of the Department of English Literature.
The Story of Wellesley
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She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
The Moon and Sixpence
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Louise Colet, a woman of letters, whose difficult relations with Flaubert are sympathetically touched upon in Pater's celebrated essay on "Style."
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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Henceforward she was to be more truly a woman of letters in that her books appealed ostensibly at least only to the reading public.
The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
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My wife likes her hugely, and for my part, I had no idea that there was such a sensible woman of letters in the world.
Yesterdays with Authors
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Co-curator of the monthly Women of Letters occasion in Melbourne.
Radio NZ
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