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Far from Home in Early Modern France - Three Women's Stories (Paperback)
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Far from Home in Early Modern France - Three Women's Stories (Paperback)
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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.
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