Colette at 150: why the scandalous 20th-century writer remains a revered literary figure in France
Colette at 150: why the scandalous 20th-century writer remains a revered literary figure in France: Colette, as British author Angela Carter pointed out in a wittily perceptive article in 1980, is perhaps the only 20th-century woman writer to be commonly referred to by her surname only. Of course that surname is her father’s – “you …