A Life of Her Own: A Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France - Hardcover

Carles, Émilie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813516412 ISBN 13: 9780813516417

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher, farmer, feminist, pacifist, and political activist.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Publishers Weekly:

Published in France in 1977 as Une Soupe aux Herbes Sauvages, this autobiography of a peasant woman reared in the stony insularity of a tiny Alpine village reveals the unfolding of a formidable person. Carles, born in 1900, writes of her life in the mountains coountry of southern France as comprising "so many different things, funny or tragic, picturesque or cruel." She takes the reader into her beloved Claree Valley where she as a young child in a motherless family labored alongside her father in the fields; it is where her schooling began and where she recognized her intelligence as the key to the outer world. Primitive village life and the patriarchal though loving structure of her family are background for Carles's full, nonconformist life as teacher, farmer, mother, feminist and political activist. The memoir brings to life a captivating woman. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0813516412
• ISBN 13: 9780813516417
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296