Martin Phillips
Ashgate
Paperback
486
2006
Elizabeth Goldsmith here examines how French women in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries first came to publish their private life stories, in doing so, she explores what the writers have to say about why they decide to write about themselves, what they choose to write, how they get their stories circulated and printed, and what they do to defend themselves against the threat to personal reputation and credibility that was implied by such public self-exposure.