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Mathilde Alanic
1864–1948
Best known for warm, emotionally driven fiction, this French novelist wrote about family life, love, and duty with a strong sense of place. Her stories often drew on Anjou and on the inner lives of women navigating the expectations of their time.
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Derrière le voile : roman
by Mathilde Alanic
About the author
Born in Angers on November 10, 1864, Mathilde Alanic was a French writer and lecturer who also used the pen name Miranda. She published sentimental novels and short stories, and her work appeared in a wide range of French periodicals as well as in book form.
Alanic became especially associated with fiction centered on family, affection, moral choice, and everyday feeling. Contemporary readers linked her writing to the Anjou region and to a distinctly feminine sensibility, and she was described in her time as a novelist of family life.
She died in Angers on October 20, 1948. Though not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, she left behind a substantial body of popular fiction that offers a vivid glimpse of French domestic and regional writing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.