1. Jeanne Galzy, born Louise Jeanne Baraduc, was a French novelist and biographer from Montpellier.
11 Facts About Jeanne Galzy
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Jeanne Galzy was a long-time member of the jury for the Prix Femina.
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Jeanne Galzy grew up in a Protestant environment and went to better schools, exceedingly rare for a young girl of the time.
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Jeanne Galzy studied at the Ecole normale superieure de jeunes filles in Sevres and passed the agregation competitive exam.
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Jeanne Galzy went back to teaching, but after suffering a relapse devoted her life to writing.
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Jeanne Galzy was a member of the jury for the Prix Femina for more than five decades.
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Jeanne Galzy herself resisted such a reading, claiming that writing fiction allowed her a detachment from reality.
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Three novels written relatively early in Jeanne Galzy's career explore lesbian desire, L'Initiatrice aux mains vides, Les Demons de la solitude, and Jeunes Filles en serre chaude, written between 1929 and 1934.
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Jeanne Galzy's protagonists have no place to situate themselves socially.
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Jeanne Galzy was a member of the salon of Natalie Clifford Barney and was read by writers such as Marguerite Yourcenar; Helene de Monferrand was strongly influenced by her.
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Jeanne Galzy, like other women writers of her generation, has suffered from critical neglect that she "deserves to be better known today" is a common statement in many publications on her.