author
M. Maryan
1847–1927
A prolific French novelist writing under a pen name, she became known for stories aimed especially at young female readers and for a long, productive career in popular fiction.
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La Robe brodée d'argent
by M. Maryan
About the author
M. Maryan was the pen name of Marie Rosalie Virginie Cadiou, a French novelist born in Brest in 1847 and died there in 1927. She wrote in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was especially known as a remarkably prolific author.
Her work was written largely for young female readers, which helped give her a steady place in popular reading of her time. Bibliographic records identify her as a French author, and reference sources note that she worked in Paris while publishing extensively under the name M. Maryan.
The pen name has an interesting history of its own: some reference sources say it grew out of the name Mary-Ann, linked to her maternal family, and was fixed in its familiar form through a typographical error. Today, she is remembered mainly through her many novels and through digitized editions that keep her work accessible to modern readers.