Far from Home in Early Modern France: Three Women’s Stories (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series #92)

Far from Home in Early Modern France: Three Women’s Stories (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series #92)

Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation, Anne-Marie Fiquet du Boccage, Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour du Pin, Colette H. Winn (Editor), Colette H. Winn (Translated by), Lauren King (Translated by), Elizabeth Hagstrom (Translated by)
$65.94
Publication Date: November 9th, 2022
Publisher:
Iter Press
ISBN:
9781649590541
Pages:
312
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Description

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.  
 

About the Author

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 of French at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in editing early modern writings by women.
 

Colette H. Winn is Professor of French at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in editing early modern writings by women.
 

Lauren King is completing a PhD in French literature at Washington University. Her doctoral dissertation examines conceptualizations of the Other in seventeenth-century French literature.
 

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