Marie de France
Standard Name: Marie de France
Birth Name: Marie
Indexed Name: Marie de France
It is making an assumption to argue that a single individual composed the body of work traditionally attributed to someone whom modern readers have called. But one or possibly more women named Marie, writing in the French language in twelfth-century England, composed lais (narrative poems), fables, and a prose saint's life (this last work in translation). Her work was influential for Middle English literature, and her life-story was an inspiration to women writing in the early nineteenth century.
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Marie de France,. The Lais of Marie de France. Translators Burgess, Glyn Sheridan and Keith Busby, Penguin, 1986.
Burgess, Glyn Sheridan, and Marie de France. The Lais of Marie de France: text and context. Manchester University Press, 1987.