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Pattern = "aim.* ami[acest].* amour.*"

Tables: Female Authors      Male Authors

Comparative Table Ratio=1.65

Genre Female Rate Male Rate Ratio
Novels 39.99 26.14 1.53
Hist/essai/trait 22.96 13.14 1.75
Correspondance 51.55 46.37 1.11

Correspondance is mainly 17th/18th
Female Sample: 15 Documents containing 1813458 words
Male Sample:15 Documents containing 1301862 words

Not a Sand Effect

Sand novels = 37.01
19th century novels (not Sand) = 42.32
19th century all but Sand = 41.33

Most frequent authors after Sand:

Sevigne Mme de (17th century): 5102
Staël, Germaine de (18-19th): 4698
Genlis Mme de (19th): 1999
And in 8th rank: Beauvoir S. de (20th): 1458
900: Les Mandarins
558: Memoires Jeune Fille Rangee
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