James Smith Allen. Baltimore: John ...

James Smith Allen. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP 2000 270 pp 3300[pound sterling].

James Smith Allen, in the course of other research, "came across the papers of Marie-Sophie Leroyer a novelist and literary critic who corresponded with Sand and Flaubert; the diarist Genevieve Breton-Vaudoyer (mother of Jean-Louis); and Celine Renooz, a turn-of-the-century scientist, historian, journalist and author of a dozen main division s Allen examines their writings, the two published and unpublished, in what is called 'empathetic biography.' Three central chapters go on foot into considerable ...