salonnière

Past the war, she earned a good reputation as salonnière.

She would probably have remained a salonnière but for two provoking events.

Her role as a salonnière has been hotly contested by many leading academics.

After his death she became a famous salonnière.

Her success as a literary hostess (the term salonnière did not appear before the 19th century) has many explanations.

Her new business will also be a test of what was the strongest brand: the magazines and websites she edited or the superlative salonnière herself.

Maintaining the tensions between inner satisfaction and outer negation which made Geoffrin the model salonnière was not easy.

The salonnière played a prominent role in establishing order within the Republic of Letters during the Enlightenment period.

Today he is a well-known and talented writer, and what he calls a salonnière (presumably the feminine is intended).

Her actions as a Parisian salonnière exemplify many of the most important characteristics of Enlightenment sociability.

Appolonie Sabatier was a salonnière and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire and others.

Unknown date - Hedvig Catharina Lillie, Swedish salonnière (died 1745)

Argentina's most active female figure in the revolutionary process, Mariquita Sánchez, was Buenos Aires' leading salonnière.

Rather, she proposes, Eliot was a kind of English salonnière, "conducting one of the most visited, vital, and influential salons" of the eighteen-seventies.

The political philosopher Hannah Arendt offered her own version when she wrote a biography of Rahel Levin Varnhagen, the early salonnière.

Another salonnière, the Marquise du Deffand, can be said to have competed against Madame Geoffrin for the friendship of many prominent men of letters.

Geneviève Halévy, French salonnière, daughter of Fromental Halévy and wife of Georges Bizet.

Madame Verdurin (Sidonie Verdurin): A poseur and a salonnière who rises to the top of society through inheritance, marriage, and sheer single-mindedness.

She continues, "The most influential salonnière was perhaps Madame Geoffrin of the rue Saint-Honoré, who managed to attract the largest number of distinguished foreigners to her home."

May 23 - Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (Mademoiselle de Lespinasse) French salonnière (born 1732)

Dena Goodman, in what has been criticized as perhaps an idealized feminist theory, suggests, "The salonnière's art...allowed her to manage the egos of others (males) without imposing her own upon them."

The hackers have lately gained a salonnière in Mei Mei Yap, a 37-year-old Malaysian copywriter who lives in Kuala Lumpur and works for an advertising agency there.

Each salonnière was called upon to retell an old tale or rework an old theme, spinning clever new stories that not only showcased verbal agility and imagination, but also slyly commented on the conditions of aristocratic life.

The Literary Salon Broadcaster, journalist and self-styled salonnière Damian Barr presents this bright literary podcast in which notable authors read from their latest works and answer questions from a lively London audience.

The Parisian salon gave the Republic of Letters source of political order in the person of the salonnière, for she gave order both to social relations among salon guests and to the discourse in which they engaged.