Madeleine de Scudéry (15 November 1607 – 2 June 1701), often known simply as Mademoiselle de Scudéry, was a French writer.
Ko je leta 1665 London zajela bubonska kuga, se je Dryden preselil v Wiltshire, kjer je napisal svoje najdaljše delo, "An Essay of Dramatick Poesie".