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My apprenticeships

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"Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was twenty when she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a literary entrepreneur known as Willy who was considerably older than she was. He set her to writing novels featuring a schoolgirl heroine, Claudine, which he published under his own …

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"Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was twenty when she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a literary entrepreneur known as Willy who was considerably older than she was. He set her to writing novels featuring a schoolgirl heroine, Claudine, which he published under his own name. He had been betraying her sexually almost from the moment he brought her to Paris from her native Burgundy. In *My Apprenticeships* (1936) she describes the early years of their marriage." Phyllis Rose in *The Norton Book of Women's Lives*

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