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Far from home in early modern France : three women's stories

Title: 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.
Publication: New York ; Toronto : Iter Press, 2022.

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Description

vii, 296 pages; 23 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 92

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-5027

ISBN

9781649590541
1649590547

LCCN

2021055782

OCLC

1276932195

Title

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.

Publisher

New York ; Toronto : Iter Press, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 92

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and indexes.

Chronological Term

1600-1865

Added Author

Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672, author.

Du Boccage, Madame (Marie-Anne), 1710-1802, author.

La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853, author.

Winn, Colette H., editor, translator.

King, Lauren, 1992- translator.

Hagstrom, Elizabeth, translator.

Marie de l'Incarnation, mère, Saint, 1599-1672. Correspondence. Selections. English.

Du Boccage, Madame (Marie-Anne), 1710-1802. Correspondence. Selections. English.

La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853. Journal d'une femme de cinquante ans. English.

Du Boccage, Madame (Marie-Anne), 1710-1802. Letters on England, Holland, and Italy.

La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853. Journal of a fifty-year-old woman.

Research Call Number

JFE 22-5027

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