This daughter of Jacques Necker maintained a thriving salon in the 1790s.
This author considered supernatural fiction, such as epics and allegories, to be weaker than the historical and natural fiction, in a division specified in the piece "Essay on Fictions." Felicia Hemans wrote a lyrical poem about an episode in one of this author's novels, in which a poet skilled at improvisation is crowned with laurel at the Capitol. This author distilled her careful study of German literature and philosophy into the appropriately- titled book Germany after she was (*) banished from Paris for opposing Napoleon. Oswald ends up marrying Lucille, the half-sister of the title Italian poetess, in a novel by this author that was vigorously defended by her lover Benjamin Constant. This daughter of Jacques Necker maintained a thriving salon in the 1790s. For 10 points, name this French Enlightenment woman of letters who wrote the novels Delphine and Corinne.
This author considered supernatural fiction, such as epics and allegories, to be weaker than the historical and natural fiction, in a division specified in the piece "Essay on Fictions."
Madame {de Staël} [or Anne Louise Germaine {de Staël}-Holstein; or Anne Louise Germaine {Necker} until mentioned]