She was also a grand officer of La Légion d’honneur, she was the first female member and eventually President of the prestigious Académie Goncourt and the first woman to receive a State funeral in France. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. The man was Henry- Gauthier-Villars who was more popularly known by his nom de plume “Willy” and the woman, Sidonie- Gabrielle Colette, one of the most eminent early 20 thcentury French writers whose accomplishments are manifold. And in one instance, the man and woman happened to be married to each other. In some cases she wasn’t anonymous but let a man take credit for her talent.
The young Colette with luscious long braids!Īnonymous was often a woman, noted Virginia Woolf in her 1929 essay, A Room of One’s Own.
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