Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to ModernismUnder the assumed name Rachilde, Marguerite Eymery (1860 1953) wrote over sixty works of fiction, drama, poetry, memoir, and criticism, including Monsieur Vnus, one of the most famous examples of decadent fiction. She was closely associated with the literary journal Mercure de France, inspired parts of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and mingled with all the literary lights of the day. Yet for all that, very little has been written about