Delly, pseudonym of Marie (1875-1947) and Frédéric (1876-1949) Petitjean de la Rosière, joint authors of some 100 romantic novels, which still enjoy considerable popularity. Of slight literary merit, the novels rest on recurrent elements of popular sentimental escapism. For R. Quilliot (La Mer et les prisons, p. 176), they are the source of the extravagant sentence attributed to the perfectionist author Grand in La Peste (‘Par une belle matinée de mai, une svelte amazone …’).
— Alistair Blyth
