Sophie Cottin, born in 1770, was raised in a Protestant, upper-middle-class family from Bordeaux. She received no formal education but corresponded and read extensively. Exiled from Paris by the Terror and displaced by the loss of her husband, mother, and fortune, she retired to a country house in 1794 to become one of France's preeminent novelists. Claire d'Albe was translated into several languages. Margaret Cohen is professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Her publications include The Novel and the Sea, Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, and The Sentimental Education of the Novel.
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"Claire d'Albe is an excellent choice for the series. In the early years of the nineteenth century, this novel was both highly successful and scandalous. It belongs to important literary and intellectual traditions and would work well in a course tracing the history of French literature in the period, especially as an example of women's writing." --English Showalter, professor emeritus of French, Rutgers University