Claire Marrone. Female Journeys: Au...

Claire Marrone. Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expressions according to French and Italian Women Westport: Greenwood 2000 200 pp ISBN 0-313-30727-X $5995

Female Journeys is a inquiry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Italian women's autobiographical writings. The works examined, Marrone maintains in the introduction, frequently involve a movement away from oppressive forms while taking on the characteristics of a bildungsroman. Their protagonists belong to different social form into groupss (from prostitutes to princesses), if it were not that they all experience more [i]or[/i] less form of awakening, ...