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urn:uuid:b1d331d5-3081-4789-ac46-68466c021a48 03 01 01 urn:uuid:b1d331d5-3081-4789-ac46-68466c021a48 15 9781805110347 06 10.11647/OBP.0346 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Destins de femmes French Women Writers, 1750-1850 1 A01 21 0000-0003-0644-9530 John Claiborne Isbell 01 eng 00 201 03 12 2ADF 93 DS B2 European Studies 20 French women writers 10 LIT004150 04 Z2173.5.W6 12 DS B2 European Studies: French Studies 93 JBSF1 10 LIT004290 20 politics 04 PQ149 12 DSA 93 DSBD 10 LIT024030 B2 Literature 20 revolutions 93 DSBF 12 DSR 10 LIT024040 20 Romantic art B2 Women and Gender Studies 12 JFSJ1 20 women's rights 12 HBLL 20 multi-genre writers 20 Romanticism 03 00 <p>Destins de femmes is the first comprehensive overview of French women writers during the turbulent period of 1750-1850. John Isbell provides an essential collection that illuminates the impact women writers had on French literature and politics during a time marked by three revolutions, the influx of Romantic art, and rapid technological change. </p><p>Each of the book’s thirty chapters introduces a prominent work by a different female author writing in French during the period, from Germaine de Staël to George Sand, from the admired salon libertine Marie du Deffand to Flora Tristan, tireless campaigner for socialism and women’s rights. Isbell draws from multi-genre writers working in prose, poetry and correspondence and addresses the breadth of women’s contribution to the literature of the age. Isbell also details the important events which shaped the writers’ lives and contextualises their work amidst the liberties both given and taken away from women during the period. </p><p>This anthology fills a significant gap in the secondary literature on this transformative century, which often overlooks women who were working and active. It invites a further gendered investigation of the impact of revolution and Romanticism on the content and nature of French women’s writing, and will therefore be appropriate for both general readers, students, and academics analysing history and literature through a feminist lens.</p> 04 00 Acknowledgements vii Introduction ix 1. Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand 1 2. Marie Jeanne Riccoboni 7 3. Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d’Esclavelles d’Épinay 13 4. Julie Jeanne Éléonore de Lespinasse 19 5. Suzanne Necker 23 6. Isabelle Agnès Élisabeth de Charrière 29 7. Stéphanie Félicité, Marquise de Sillery, Comtesse de Genlis 33 8. Marie Olympe Gouze [Olympe de Gouges] 39 9. Marie Jeanne ‘Manon’ Roland de la Platière 45 10. Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun 51 11. Adélaïde Marie Émilie de Souza-Botelho 57 12. Sophie de Grouchy or Sophie de Condorcet 63 13. Beate Barbara Juliane Freifrau von Krüdener 69 14. Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de Staël-Holstein 75 15. Constance Marie Pipelet or Constance, Princesse de Salm 83 16. Henriette Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet 87 17. Marie Sophie Risteau Cottin 91 18. Marie Françoise Sophie Gay 95 19. Claire Louisa Rose Bonne, Duchesse de Duras 101 20. Claire Élisabeth Jeanne, Comtesse de Rémusat 107 21. Adélaïde Charlotte Louise Éléonore, Comtesse de Boigne 111 22. Marceline Félicité Josèphe Desbordes-Valmore 117 23. Hortense Thérèse Sigismonde Sophie Alexandrine Allart de Méritens 123 24. Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso [Flora Tristan] 129 25. Delphine Gay de Girardin [Vicomte de Launay] 137 26. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant [George Sand] 143 27. Louise Angélique Bertin 151 28. Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, Comtesse d’Agoult [Daniel Stern] 155 29. Julienne Joséphine Gauvin [Juliette Drouet] 161 30. Louise Colet 167 Index 173 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20230719 13 15 9781805110330 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0346.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0346 99 01