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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hawthorne, Melanie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Estoc, Gisele d', > 1863-approximately 1906.
Estoc, Gisele d', > 1863-ca. 1906.
Women sculptors.
Women authors, French.
Women anarchists.
Male impersonators.
Bisexual women.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Écrivaines françaises > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Sculptrices > France > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Bisexuelles > France > Biographies.
Actrices travesties > Biographies.
Femmes anarchistes > France > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Women authors, French > 19th century > Biography.
Women sculptors > France > 19th century > Biography.
Bisexual women > France > Biography.
Male impersonators > Biography.
Women anarchists > France > 19th century > Biography.
France.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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