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Madame Panache
1789–1881
An early 19th-century novelist and historian writing under the name Madame Panache, she is best known for fiction that explores social behavior, class, and everyday character with a sharp eye. Her work also ranged into historical writing, showing an interest in the wider world beyond the drawing room.
3 Audiobooks
Manners: A Novel, Vol 3
by Madame Panache
Manners: A Novel, Vol 1
by Madame Panache
Manners: A Novel, Vol 2
by Madame Panache
About the author
Often identified as Frances Moore, this writer published under the pseudonym Madame Panache and is usually dated 1789 or 1790–1881. Library and bibliographic records connect her name with the three-volume novel Manners (1817), the novel A Year and a Day (1818), and Historical Life of Joanna of Sicily, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence (1824).
Her surviving works suggest a writer interested both in social fiction and in history. Manners points to her talent for observing custom, reputation, and class, while her later book on Joanna of Sicily shows a turn toward historical biography and literary culture.
Very little biographical detail appears to be firmly documented online, so much of her life remains obscure. Even so, the record of her publications shows a versatile author whose books moved between the novel and historical narrative during the early 1800s.