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Gyp
1849–1932
A sharp, witty French novelist and playwright, she built a huge popular readership by turning the manners and contradictions of her world into lively fiction. Writing as Gyp, she became known for brisk dialogue, social satire, and an unmistakably bold public voice.
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About the author
Born Sibylle Aimée Marie-Antoinette Gabrielle de Riquetti de Mirabeau in 1849, the writer better known as Gyp published under a pen name and became a notable figure in French literary life. She wrote novels and plays, and reference sources describe her as a dramatist, novelist, and salonnière whose work found a wide audience.
Her fiction is especially associated with satire and close observation of social manners. Oxford Reference notes that she began publishing in the 1880s and produced a large body of work, including magazine sketches and more than twenty plays, helping make her one of the more visible popular French writers of her era.
Gyp died in 1932. Today she is remembered both for the energy of her storytelling and for the vivid picture her work gives of upper-class and everyday social life in late 19th- and early 20th-century France.