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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart, Joan Hinde
Corporate Author: Voltaire Foundation
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Voltaire Foundation, 2010.
Series:SVEC ; 2010:09.
Subjects:
Older women > France > Social conditions > 18th century.
Older women > France > Social conditions > 18th century > Correspondence.
Older women in literature.
France > Social life and customs > 18th century.
Table of 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.