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Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist : The Curious Life of Gisèle d'Estoc /

Gisele d'Estoc was the pseudonym of a nineteenth-century French woman writer and, it turns out, artist who, among other things, was accused of being a bomb-planting anarchist, the cross-dressing lover of writer Guy de Maupassant, and the fighter of at least one duel with another woman, inspirin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hawthorne, Melanie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • To hell and back (the present)
  • Gisele d'Estoc and World War II (the 1930s)
  • A storm in a teacup and a bomb in a flowerpot (the 1890s)
  • An interlude (no time in particular)
  • Gisele d'Estoc when she was real (the 1870s)
  • Gisele d'Estoc and who she wasn't (the 1960s)
  • Afterword
  • Chronology.