Discovered: Joseph Étienne de Surville's Preface to the Poésies de Clotilde de Surville

• Published in: Library Vol. 21; no. 4; pp. 528 - 532
• Main Author: Cole, William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 01.12.2020; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Etienne, Joseph; Poetry; Writers

Abstract Joseph Étienne, marquis de Surville (1755–1798) composed a wildly successful book of poems, first published in 1803, that he passed off as the work of his ancestor Clotilde de Surville (c. 1405-c. 1498). A newly-discovered copy of the first edition—presented by the author's widow to a...