Far from Home in Early Modern France: Three Women’s Stories (Volume 92) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

Cover
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	The Other Voice
		Marie Guyart de l’Incarnation (1599–1672), The Mother of New France
		Anne-Marie Fiquet Du Boccage (1710–1802), Poet, Translator, Salonnière, and Traveler
		Henriette-Lucie Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin (1770–1853), a Survivor of the Reign of Terror
	Experiencing Otherness
		It will be there that I find bliss . . .
		Let us step outside our homeland, there will be a new being . . .
		The happiest moment of my existence . . .
	The Journey Narrative: Forms and Content
		The Missionary Letter
		The Familiar Letter
		The Autobiographical Memoir: A Hybrid Form
	Travel Writing and Gender as a Field of Investigation and a Source for Teaching
	Note on the Translations
Travel Narratives
	Marie de l’Incarnation, Correspondence
	Madame Du Boccage, Letters on England, Holland, and Italy
	Madame de La Tour du Pin, Journal of a Fifty-Year-Old Woman, 1778–1815
Appendix 1: Cécile de Sainte-Croix, The Story of Her Crossing and Arrival in Quebec (September 2, 1639)
Appendix 2: Glossary of Places
Appendix 3: Table of Currencies and Values
Appendix 4: Chronology
Bibliography
Index of Names
Thematic Index