Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists

Novel by Hope Mirrlees, about a seventeen-year-old girl named Madeleine Troqueville living in Paris in the middle of the seventeenth century, who aspires to become part of Mademoiselle de Scudéry's salon intimates.

The themes of this book can be linked to fan fiction and Mary Sue, and women and madness. There is also agreat deal of religious reflexion on the part of the protagonist, who devises a system of superstitions which she hopes will help her achieve her dreams.