Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. What Women Want, 2. Befriending the Female Reader, 3. Girls with Guns, 4. True Crime?, 5. Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index

Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. What Women Want, 2. Befriending the Female Reader, 3. Girls with Guns, 4. True Crime?, 5. Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index

Deborah Steinberger is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Delaware. She specializes in French seventeenth-century literature. Her previous publications include critical editions of epistolary and dramatic works by Françoise Pascal, as well as articles on Molière, Donneau de Visé, and Le Mercure Galant.

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1. What Women Want, 2. Befriending the Female Reader, 3. Girls with Guns, 4. True Crime?, 5. Obstinate Women and Sleeping Beauties in the Kingdom of Miracles, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index