Far from home in early modern France : three women's stories / Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation, Anne-Marie Fiquet Du Boccage, and Henriette-Lucie Dillon de La Tour du Pin ; edited and with an introduction by Colette H. Winn ; translated by Lauren King, Elizabeth Hagstrom, and Colette H. Winn.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and indexes.
Contents:
The other voice -- Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation (1599-1672) -- Anne Marie Fiquet Du Boccage (1710-1802) -- Henriette-Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin (1770-1853) -- Experiencing Otherness -- It will be there that I find bliss... -- Let us step outside our homeland, there will be a new being -- The happiest moment of my existence -- The journey narrative: forms and content -- The missionary letter -- The familiar letter -- The autobiographical memoir: a hybrid form -- Travel writing and gender as a field of investigation and a source for teaching -- Note on the translations -- Travel narratives -- Marie de l'Incarnation, Correspondence -- Madame Du Boccage, Letters on England, Holland, and Italy -- Madame de La Tour du Pin, Journal of a fifty-year-old woman, 1778-1815 -- Appendix 1: Cécile de Sainte-Croix, The story of her crossing and arrival in Quebec (September 2, 1639) -- Appendix 2: Glossary of places -- Appendix 3: Table of currencies and values -- Appendix 4: Chronology.
Summary:
"Travel accounts by three French women who journeyed through Europe, New France, and the new United States in the 17th- and 18th-centuries, their experiences documented in letters and memoir"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 92
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