Beaumer, Madame de (d. 1766)
Beaumer, Madame de (d. 1766)
French journalist and novelist. Born in France; possibly a Huguenot; died 1766 in Holland.
One of the 1st women to use feminine words for editor (éditrice) and author (autrice), served as editor of Journal des Dames (1760–65), which was censored for radical and feminist views; her various writings were collected as Ouevres mêlées (1760); also wrote Lettres de Magdelon Friquet and Dialogue entre Charles XII roi de Suède et Mandarin (1760). Lettres de Magdelon Friquet was deemed unpublishable by censors and is no longer extant.
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