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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453125303321

Autore

Hawthorne Melanie

Titolo

Finding the woman who didn't exist [[electronic resource] ] : the curious life of Gisele d'Estoc / / Melanie C. Hawthorne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8032-4568-8

1-283-94882-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Women authors, French - 19th century

Women sculptors - France - 19th century

Bisexual women - France

Male impersonators

Women anarchists - France - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- To hell and back (the present) -- Gisele d'Estoc and World War II (the 1930's) -- A storm in a teacup and a bomb in a flowerpot (the 1890's) -- An interlude (no time in particular) -- Gisele d'Estoc when she was real (the 1870's) -- Gisele d'Estoc and who she wasn't (the 1960's) -- Afterword -- Chronology.