Mme de La Tour du Pin, 1770-1853 : Le Journal d‘une femme de cinquante ans

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  • Catherine R. Montfort

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Catherine R. Montfort

Catherine R. Montfort is Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies at Santa Clara University. She is the author of several books (among them Les Fortunes de Mme de Sévigné au XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles), and more than forty articles and chapters on Agrippa d‘Aubigné, Mme de Sévigné, Charlotte Corday, Vigée Lebrun, Mme de Staël, Mme Campan, Mme de La Tour du Pin, Simone de Beauvoir, Annie Ernaux and Pierrette Fleutiaux. She has edited a volume entitled Literate Women and the French Revolution of 1789 (1994), and recently coedited French and Francophone Women, 16th-21st Centuries: Essays on Literature, Culture and Society with Biographical and Media Resources (2002); and French/Francophone Culture and Literature Through Film (2006). From 2005 to 2009, she was the Executive Editor of WIF Studies. In 2012, she edited a WIF Studies Special Issue on “Les femmes et la lecture” (2012). Currently she is working on “Les femmes et le voyage.”

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