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Allons!...on n'a pas encore rendu compte de mon roman..., 1844. 'Allons!...on n'a pas encore rendu compte de mon roman aujourd'hui! ces journalistes s'occupent maintenant tous les matins des Lièvres...des Perdreaux...des Bècasses!...et ils ne pensent pas à moi...c'est inconcevable!'. Lady novelist reading newspaper: 'Well!... they still haven't reviewed my novel! These journalists are only interested in Rabbits...Partridges...Woodcocks!... and they don't think about me at all...it's inconceivable!'. Satirical criticism of 'bluestockings': women who have interests beyond housework and childcare. Female authors were often depicted as mannish and ugly - the implication being that their intellectual output was just as objectionable as their looks. From Les Bas-bleus, no. 10.