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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780098603321

Autore

Grogan Susan K. <1949, >

Titolo

Flora Tristan : life stories / / Susan Grogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-94412-8

1-134-94413-6

1-280-32225-X

0-203-40857-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/092

Soggetti

Feminists - France

Social reformers - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: biography and memory; Childhood stories; Slave and pariah; Traveller; Woman author; Social scientist; Socialist; Mother of the workers; Lover of humanity; 'The first strong woman'; Melodramatic hero; Saving woman; Death and birth of a legend; Epilogue; works by Flora Tristan; chronological appendix; biographical appendix; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the nineteenth-century French social critic and reformer's life by exploring the ways she represented herself in her writings and how others portrayed her in paintings and literature.