Apology for the Woman Writing and Other Works

by Marie le Jars de Gournay

Book Overview

During her lifetime, the gifted writer Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) was celebrated as one of the "seventy most famous women of all time" in Jean de la Forge's Circle of Learned Women (1663). The adopted daughter of Montaigne, as well as his editor, Gournay was a major literary force and a pioneering feminist voice during a tumultuous period in France.

This volume presents translations of four of Gournay's works that address feminist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226305554
• ISBN13: 9780226305554
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"