ABSTRACT
“Marie Lenéru” is not a familiar name today, although in early twentieth-century Paris it enjoyed wide recognition. Lenéru was well known as a mainstream playwright, the author of works performed at the prestigious Comédie-Française. It is hard to believe that someone—especially a woman—who achieved such distinction should so quickly be forgotten, but in fact the trajectory of fame followed by oblivion is all too familiar in the careers of women writers.
