"Analyzes the reception of nineteenth-century French women poets, including Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Amable Tastu, E?lisa Mercoeur, Melanie Waldor, Louise Colet, Anai?s Segalas, Malvina Blanchecotte, Louise Ackermann, and Marie Krysinska, to recover the diversity of women's voices. Places their contributions within the medical and literary debate about the sex of genius"--Provided by publisher.