The small Canoness

An intimate drama, which takes place sometimes in the society mixed with lounges where one is not bored, sometimes in the moving environment of a Pyrenean ambulance or among the somewhat enclosed lives of the province. Miss Elys de Valromée, whom, despite her eighteenth birthday, is called Madame la Chanoinesse, did not take a vow of celibacy when she entered the Sainte-Edwige chapter, but convinced herself that she would never get married. Is she not mistaken?

Delly is the name of spouse feather of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Littlejohn of La Rosiere, born in Avignon in 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean of La Rosiere, born in Vannes in 1876, authors of romance novels popular.

Delly's novels, no known current players and ignored by the academic world, were extremely popular between 1910 and 1950, and were among the most successful in the global publishing at the time.