Blood Sisters: The French Revolution In Women's Memory

New York, New York, USA: Basic Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. Top edge of text block is lightly specked with near colorless spots. otherwise the book is in fine condition, in maroon half-cloth with gilt titles, gray boards, clean, unmarked, tight, solid and square. Internals as new. b/w historic illustrations. At the time of the French Revolution, 1789- , the promises of "liberty, equality, and fraternity" did not apply to women--but in this book the voices of women who witnessed and experienced the Revolution can finally be heard and given their place in history. They left eighty accounts of what they saw, these chronicles ranging from the 16-page testimonial of the Widow Bault, wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison, to the ten volume memoirs of the prolific writer Mme de Genlis; and from a dictated life story of an illiterate peasant, to acknowledges classics Mme Roland and Mme de Stael. Their stories describe how they participated, individually and collectively, in these revolutionary years and how they sometimes succeeded in manipulating a political system that excluded them. Fascinating stories. 308 pages with Chapter Notes, An Annotated Bibliography of French Women's Eyewitness Accounts of the Revolution, and Index. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. 1993, Basic Books, New York, New York, USA