The female letter writer in the 18th century: Lettres d'une Peruvienne by Mme de Graffigny

In this article we present an analysis of the work of Mme de Graffigny Lettres d'une Peruvienne (1747), a novel which was a considerable success at the time of its publication, although it presented a thesis on the situation of women in Lumiere's highly critical society. We situate our analysis of the work in the context of the epistolary novel in France in the 18th century. We highlight the elements that we consider innovative in this work in relation to the genre to which it belongs.