The author recounts her voyage to Peru in 1833 to claim a family fortune, describes her adventures along the way, and argues for the legalization of divorce

"The Politics of the Essay is that rare scholarly work that provides both a history of this relatively new field and of its formal characteristics and inspires

Here for the first time is a book devoted exclusively to the topic of women’s autobiography in nineteenth-century France. Tracing the rise of autobiography in

A nineteenth-century social reform proposal, available again