LibGuides: Primary Sources: France: Women

Online Sources: Women - France

Book Sources: Women - France

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle by Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orleans Montpensier; Franc¸oise de Motteville; Joan E. DeJean (Translator)
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780226534930
During the Reign of Terror; Journal of My Life during the French Revolution, by Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
European Women: A Documentary History, 1789-1945 by Eleanor S. Riemer; John C. Fout (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1587 E98
ISBN: 0805237372
Les Droits de la Femme by Olympe de Gouges and Ligaran
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9782335034875
Letters from the Queen of Navarre with an Ample Declaration by Jeanne d'Albret; Kathleen M. Llewellyn; Emily E. Thompson (Editor); Colette H. Winn (Editor)
Call Number: DC112.J4 A3 2016
ISBN: 086698545X
Translated from the French.
Letters of Mlle. de Lespinasse by Julie de Lespinasse
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
Memoires and Correspondence of Madame Récamier by Isaphene M. Luyster, Translator
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
"Originally published 1867, right after the Civil War, these are the memoirs and correspondence of Madame Recamier, a famous courtesan who knew virtually everybody in early 19th century France, from Mme. de Stael to Chateaubriand." Description from Google Books
My First Years as a Frenchwoman 1876-1879 by Mary King Waddington
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Ruin of a Princess by Marie-Thérèse Charlotte
Call Number: DC137.4.A593 R9
As Told by the Duchesse d'Angoulême, Madame Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and Cléry, the King's Valet de Chambre,
literally translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Illustrated with photogravures from the original paintings.
Also online UPenn Digital Library
Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy by Eric Schliesser (Editor); Sandrine Bergès (Editor); Sandrine BergÃ¤s (Translator)
Call Number: Online - UPSO
ISBN: 9780190637088
Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth-century England, France, and the United States by Erna O. Hellerstein et al.
Call Number: HQ1154 .V5
ISBN: 0804710961
A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King by Elisabeth Charlotte; Elborg Forster (Translator)
Call Number: DC130.O7 A4 1984
ISBN: 0801831598
: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1652-1722
Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook by Deborah Simonton (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1587 .W664 2014
ISBN: 0415684382
"Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day."
Writing the Revolution: A French Woman's History in Letters by Lindsay A. H. Parker
Call Number: DC146.J77 P37 2013
ISBN: 9780199931026

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