Janet and Malcolm Whatley live in Burlington, Vermont.Janet Whatley is a professor of French at the University of Vermont, specializing in the literature of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
"It is only in the past decade ... that Isabelle de Charriere's writings have been recognized as the remarkable resource they are: an indelibly fresh register of a whole period, as well as of one woman's exploration of 'how to be yourself without stepping out of the system.'"-Annette Kobak, Times Literary Supplement -- Annette Kobak Times Literary Supplement