Possible Clues:

• Cyrano's love
• "Hunger" memoirist __ Gay
• 'Hunger' memoirist __ Gay
• Cyrano’s love
• 'Difficult Women' author Gay
• Cyrano de Bergerac's love
• Love of Cyrano de Bergerac
• Cyrano de Bergerac wooed her
• Steer into strangely near confinement for Racine's sultana