SCUDERY

SCUDERY (Magdalene de), sister of George de Scudery, was born in 1607, and became very eminent for her wit and writings. Necessity first stimulated her genius; and as the taste of the age was for romances, she turned her pen that way, and succeeded wonderfully in gratifying the public humour. This lady held a correspondence with all the learned as well as with all the wits; and her house at Paris was a kind of little court, where numbers of both kinds used constantly to assemble. She died in 1701, at 94 years old. Her principal works are, 1. Artamenes, or the Grand Cyrus. 2. Clelia. 3. La Promenade de Vraiseilles. 4. Ibrahim, or the Illustrious Bassa. 5. Almahide, or the Royal Slave. 6. Celinda. 7. Matilda of Aguilar. 8. Conversations, 10 volumes, &c. All of them are written in French.

N. B. ERRATA, OMISSIONS, &c. noticed and supplied in the APPENDIX at the end of the Work.