Marie-Louise Gagneur, Le Calvaire des femmes

Cecilia Beach (Alfred University)

Ed. by Nigel Harkness, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1867

Places

France (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Le Calvaire des femmes [The Ordeals of Women] by Marie-Louise Gagneur is a social novel exposing the suffering of working-class women and the corruption, decadence and injustice of Second Empire France. It was first published in serial form in Le Siècle (4 Nov. – 7 Dec 1866), followed by a sequel entitled Les Réprouvées [The Outcasts]. The original title of the first part was L’Enfer des femmes (Women’s Hell), but was changed to Le Calvaire des femmes on 22 November 1866 when it was brought to the author’s attention that another book had recently been published under the first title. In addition to a volume printed by …

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Citation: Beach, Cecilia. "Le Calvaire des femmes". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 July 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35749, accessed 16 April 2024.]

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