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The enlightenment of age : women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France

Title
The enlightenment of age : women, letters and growing old in eighteenth-century France / Joan Hinde Stewart ; foreword by Joan Dejean.
Author
Stewart, Joan Hinde.
Publication
Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010.

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Additional Authors
Voltaire Foundation.
Description
xiv, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SVEC ; 2010:09
Uniform Title
SVEC ; 2010:09.
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • 1700-1800
  • Older women > France > Social conditions > 18th century
  • Older women > France > Social conditions > Correspondence. > 18th century
  • Older women in literature
  • 15.70 history of Europe
  • 18.25 French literature
  • Older women in literature
  • Literatur
  • Schriftstellerin
  • Ältere Frau Motiv
  • Frau
  • Women
  • Old age
  • Literature
  • Older women > France > Social conditions > 18th century
  • Older women > France > Social conditions > 18th century > Correspondence
  • Äldre kvinnor > sociala förhållanden > historia > Frankrike > 1700-talet > brev
  • Äldre kvinnor i litteraturen
  • France
  • Frankreich
  • France
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A prescription for eternity -- Old fairies -- Menopause and morals -- Fifteen minutes to fifty -- What time is it? -- Romancing Marie -- Addressing her age -- Portrait of the artist as an old lady -- Generations -- Word salad.
ISBN
  • 9780729410014
  • 0729410013
LCCN
2010533855
OCLC
  • ocn653083595
  • 653083595
  • SCSB-1568188
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library