James Smith Allen. Poignant Relatio...

James Smith Allen. Poignant Relations: Three recent French Women. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP 2000 270 pp ISBN 0-8018-6204-3 $4250

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when long women's writing contained a certain number of kind of rebellion against patriarchal tradition, three relatively secluded French women essayed end novels, letters, memoirs, diaries, and other discursive forms of written expression to address privately and discreetly certain issues at a critical gravity in the history of the women's rights emotion in France, 1848-1922.

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