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The Lady of the Camellias
Lady of the Camellias
also: Marguerite Gautier, Kaméliás hölgy
The heroine of Dumas fils's La Dame aux camélias (1848), the consumptive courtesan Marguerite Gautier; the emblem for Madách's generation of fashionable sentimental excess and unhealthy neuroticism.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Lady of the Camellias
The heroine of Alexandre Dumas fils's novel La Dame aux camélias (1848) and its dramatization; the consumptive courtesan Marguerite Gautier became for Madách's generation the emblem of fashionable sentimental excess.