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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) and index
Vocation and provocation -- Speech and saintliness : Jeanne Le Prince de Beaumont -- Doxal virtue : Anne Louise Elie de Beaumont -- Remarrying : Marie Jeanne Riccoboni -- Mapping the quotidian : Isabelle de Charrière -- Economies : Marie Jeanne Riccoboni and Isabelle de Charrière -- Wedding nights : Isabelle de Montolieu -- Gilded cages : Adélaïde de Souza -- Brazen desire : Sophie Cottin -- Morals : Sophie Cottin and Félicité de Genlis