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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
(20 June 1786 - 23 July 1859) was a French
poet
and
novelist
.
She was born in Dowai. After the
French Revolution
, her father's business fell apart. She went with her mother to
Guadeloupe
looking for
financial
help from a far relative. Her mother died there from
yellow fever
. She went back to France. At age 16, she began a career on stage in
Douai,.
In 1817, she married an actor named Prosper Lanchantin-Valmore.
In 1819, she produced her first book,
Elegies et Romances.
Later, in 1821, she published the narrative
Veillees des Antilles,
which includes the novella
Sarah,
an addition to the
genre
of
slave
stories in France.