| Summary: | At day we know rather well the ideology of women who wrote in nineteenth-century France. But a question is left : how they really worked and published, in spite of oppositions ? We perhaps could propose an answer, considering M. Waldor whose reputation was honourable in this period. She thinks that women, in their works, have to set an example of nobility, mercy and honesty (here is their vocation). With this purpose, they must be well known and that demands, she thinks, to pay homages, discreetly or not, to people in the public eye. Making a name is necessary to be published. Then we have to write. Some pages given to newspapers reappear in books (then that was common). Sometimes she adds to the original text or cuts from it, sometimes she changes characters and events, because readers and publishers want newness. It is an uphill work. Considering M. Waldor we look at the seamy side of an author’s life.
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