Meurent in Fiction
Victorine Meurent's life has inspired two historical novels, and she appears as a character in several others.
The Irish writer George Moore included Meurent as a character in his semi-fictional autobiography, Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). She appears as a middle-aged woman past her prime, living in a lesbian relationship with a famous courtesan.
Meurent is the protagonist of both Mademoiselle Victorine: a Novel (2007) by Debra Finerman and A Woman With No Clothes On (2008) by V R Main.
She also appears in the film Intimate Lives: The Women of Manet, aka Manet in Love (1998), played by Shelley Phillips, and most recently in Christopher Moore's novel Sacré Bleu (2012).
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