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woman of letters

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woman of letters
n. pl. women of letters
A woman who is devoted to literary or scholarly pursuits: "[Eva Le Gallienne] was ... a woman of letters who produced forcefully elegant translations of Ibsen and Hans Christian Andersen" (Margo Jefferson).


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She held their weakness for lions in good-humoured contempt, but played to them her part of the distinguished woman of letters with decorum.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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