This collection of essays celebrates twenty years of Women in French, a network of female academics working in the discipline of French Studies. Based on papers delivered at the group s tenth biennial conference in Leeds, which was entitled Le parcours, the volume investigates the theme of trajectories in French and Francophone women s lives and writings.
The book begins with consideration of the ways in which traces of women s lives, experiences and texts are conserved in archives and communicated to new generations of readers through the practice of women s biography. It then addresses...