Woman of the Eighteenth Century - Her Life, From Birth to Death, Her Love Her Philosophy in Worlds of

This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence from paintings and memoirs, the book draws an intimate lifelike account of what lay behind these images for women in France of this time. The Goncourt brothers wrote several social histories but were also art critics and novelists. Here they offer portraits of upper, middle and working class women in France. This is one of the earliest accounts of life for women in this period.

List of contents

1. Birth - The Convent - Marriage 2. Society - The Salons 3. The Pleasures of Society 4. Love 5. Married Life 6. The Woman of the Middle Classes 7. The Woman of the People - The Fille Galante 8. Beauty and the Mode 9. The Domination and Intelligence of Woman 10. The Soul of Woman 11. Woman in Her Old Age 12. The Philosophy and Death of Woman

About the author

Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

Product details

• Authors: Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond De Goncourt De Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
• Assisted by: Jacques Le Clercq (Translation), Ralph Roeder (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9780415752534
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75253-4
• No. of pages: 382
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries