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Improvisatrice

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Im`pro`vi`sa`tri´ce
n.1.See Improvvisatrice.
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[10] See also James's use of 'improvisatrice' as a term of approbation to describe George Sand in two of his eulogistic pieces on her: 'Letter from Paris' (22 July 1876), and 'George Sand' (July 1877): 'People may like George Sand or not, but they can hardly deny that she is the great improvisatrice of literature -- the writer who best answers to Shelley's description of the skylark singing "in profuse strains of unpremeditated art".
Improvising the Past in A Small Boy and Others by FOLLINI, TAMARA / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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