MADAME DE STAEL by Bella Duffy Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First edition. Printed date, 1887 to the title page. The sixteenth book in the Famous Women series. Marguerite Jeanne Cordier de Launay, later Madame de Stael (1684-1750) was the daughter of painter Cordier, and a French author of comedy plays, candid memoirs, stories, and more. Launay was very literate young lady, held court through a patron who died causing Launay poverty, and then was employed as a Lady in Waiting. She was incarcerated for two years in Bastille for heroically backing her Lady, where she famously wrote about loving another prisoner and the guard. At age fifty, due to her enticing socially literary, uplifting, entertaining, and very politically observant wit, she married Baron de Stael. Slight rubbing and tiny tears to the upper and lower spine edges, small mild rub spot to the rear cover, former owner's short inscription dated 1887 to the first blank page, else very good in brown linen with blind-and-black embossed decorative borders, and gilt and black embossed titles to the front cover and to the spine, green floral-patterned end-papers. Octavo; 239 pages; plus preface; plus 28 pages of ads to the rear. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.