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Author Grafigny, Mme de (Françoise d'Issembourg d'Happoncourt), 1695-1758.

Title Letters of a Peruvian woman / Françoise de Graffigny ; translated with an introduction and notes by Jonathan Mallinson
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 155 pages)
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text and Translation; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Françoise de Graffigny; LETTERS OF A PERUVIAN WOMAN; Appendix 1: Cultural Background; Appendix 2: French Continuations; Appendix 3: English Adaptations; Appendix 4: The Education of Young Women; Explanatory Notes
Summary Graffigny's bold and original novel tells the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin, rescued from the Spanish and brought to France. Separated from her lover and her culture, she recounts her experiences and personal growth. To this fine new translation are appended extracts from Graffigny's chief source and other writers' fictional responses. - ;'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ... '. Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is re
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxv)
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Subject Peruvians -- France -- Fiction
Women -- France -- Fiction
Manners and customs
Peruvians
Women
SUBJECT France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction
Subject France
Genre/Form novels.
Novels
Fiction
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Mallinson, G. J.
LC no. 2008036152
ISBN 9780191548987
0191548987
9786612057786
6612057785
1282057782
9781282057784
Other Titles Lettres d'une Péruvienne. English