Far from Home in Early Modern France – Three Women′s Stories
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A01=Anne-marie Fiquet Du Bocca
A01=Annemarie Fiquet Du Bocca
A01=Colette H. Winn
A01=Henriette-lucie Dillon De La To
A01=Henriettelucie Dillon De La To
A01=Lauren King
A01=Marie Guyart De L?inc
A01=Marie Guyart De Linc
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Author_Annemarie Fiquet Du Bocca
Author_Colette H. Winn
Author_Henriette-lucie Dillon De La To
Author_Henriettelucie Dillon De La To
Author_Lauren King
Author_Marie Guyart De L?inc
Author_Marie Guyart De Linc
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- ISBN 9781649590541
- Weight: 506g
- Dimensions: 152 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Iter Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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An engaging account of women’s travels in the early modern period.
This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such traveling was rare. In 1639, Marie de l’Incarnation embarked for New France where she founded the first Ursuline monastery in present-day Canada. In 1750, Madame du Boccage set out at the age of forty on her first “grand tour.” She visited England, the Netherlands, and Italy where she experienced firsthand the intellectual liberty offered there to educated women. As the Reign of Terror gripped France, the Marquise de la Tour du Pin fled to America with her husband and their two young children, where they ran a farm from 1794 to 1796. The writings these women left behind detailing their respective journeys abroad represent significant contributions to early modern travel literature. This book makes available to anglophone readers three texts that are rich in both historical and literary terms.
This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when such traveling was rare. In 1639, Marie de l’Incarnation embarked for New France where she founded the first Ursuline monastery in present-day Canada. In 1750, Madame du Boccage set out at the age of forty on her first “grand tour.” She visited England, the Netherlands, and Italy where she experienced firsthand the intellectual liberty offered there to educated women. As the Reign of Terror gripped France, the Marquise de la Tour du Pin fled to America with her husband and their two young children, where they ran a farm from 1794 to 1796. The writings these women left behind detailing their respective journeys abroad represent significant contributions to early modern travel literature. This book makes available to anglophone readers three texts that are rich in both historical and literary terms.
Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation was an Ursuline nun and missionary. Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage was a Frenchwoman who set out for a series of “grand tours” in Europe in 1750 who kept a detailed record of her educational journeys to England, Holland, and Italy. Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour du Pin fled revolutionary France for the United States. Her copious Journal of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman is one of few written testimonies of escape from the Reign of Terror written by a woman author. Colette H. Winn is professor emerita of French at Washington University in St. Louis. Lauren King received her MA in French literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Elizabeth Hagstrom received her B.A. in French and international and area studies from Washington University in St. Louis.
