Notes
1 I am grateful to my colleagues Amelia Sanz for this preview of her forthcoming article on the eighteenth-century publishing success of Leprince de Beaumont’s works, that uses digital tools to visualize the number and spread of these editions.
2 Joan JeDean, Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France, New York, Columbia UP, 1991.
3 Hélène Merlin, Public et littérature en France au XVIIe siècle, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1994.