Adèle Daminois, real name Angélique Adèle Huvey, (21 December 1789 – 5 March 1876) was a French female novelist and playwright. She was Maria Du Fresnay's mother as well as Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay's and Ange Du Fresnay's grandmother.
She is known for her many articles in favor of the emancipation of women and their admission to jobs and honors as well as for her lectures at the Athénée des Arts. She authored novels of manners.
Works
1819: Léontine de Werteling, 2 vols. 1819: Maria 1821: Alfred et Zaïda, 3 vols. 1823: Mareska et Oscar, 4 vols. 1823: La Chasse au renard, vaudeville in 1 act, with Amable de Saint-Hilaire 1824: Lydie, ou la Créole, 3 vols. 1825: Charles, ou le Fils naturel, 4 vols. 1826: Alaïs, ou la Vierge de Ténédos, short story 1827: Mes souvenirs, ou Choix d'anecdotes 1832: Une mosaïque, 2 vols. 1834: Le Prisonnier de Gisors 1836: Le Cloître au XIXème siècle 1838: Une âme d'enfer
Bibliography
Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, 1870, (p. 474) (Read online) Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, vol.13, 1886, (p. 812) Cecilia Beach, French Women Playwrights Before the Twentieth Century, 1994, (p. 100) Martine Reid, Des femmes en littérature, 2010, (p. 328)