Brada

Born Henrietta Consuelo Sansom in Paris in 1847, she became known to readers as Brada, a shortened form of her earlier pen name Bradamente. She was a French writer and novelist, and also published at times under the name Mosca.

Brada wrote fiction as well as literary and historical works, including books on Madame de Sévigné. Her career brought notable honors: the Académie Française awarded her the Montyon Prize in 1890 and the Jouy Prize in 1894, and she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1925.

She died in Paris in 1938 after a remarkably long writing life. Remembered today for her novels and her place in French literary culture, she stands as one of the women writers who successfully made a public name for themselves in her era.