THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE
by Melissa Ashley
Affirm Press, South Melbourne
Hardcover: 384 pages
Price: AUD$35
Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel
Paris 1699, and the celebrated author, Baroness Marie Catherine D’Aulnoy, is at the zenith of her literary career. Although a popular author and aristocrat, as a female she needs to conduct herself circumspectly in a country ruled by the autocratic Louis XIV. Her medium of criticising social structures, …
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