List of abbreviations
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Life stories
2. Nobles, saints, and delinquents: constructions of childhood in
the collected works of Madame de Ségur
3. The tribulations of an author: writing, censorship and the
reading public under the Second Empire
4. The comtesse and the culture wars
5. Model girls and divine women: reading the comtesse de Ségur
Conclusion
Appendix I: The collected works of the comtesse de Ségur
Appendix II: Editions
Select bibliography
Index
Sophie Heywood is Lecturer in French at the University of Reading
A masterful essay...it will be impossible to claim knowledge of the
comtesse de Ségur if you have not read Sophie Heywood’s book
Rémi Saudray, review in Cahiers Séguriens, 10 (2012) pp.
161-167.
Heywood has made Ségur a figure of considerable interest to
historians, not just biographers or literary scholars.
Sarah A. Curtis, French History, 2012
Winner of the 2012 University of Reading Research Endowment Trust
Fund Best Research Output Prize
The strength of this informative and insightful book is its ability
to contextualize the life story and the writings of the comtesse de
Ségur without losing sight of the complexities that both present.
Neither Ségur’s life nor her writings were always consistent, yet
in showing how they intersected with new ideas about childhood, a
militant Catholic revival, new publishing strategies, and shifting
notions of gender, Heywood hasmade Ségur a figure of considerable
interest to historians, not just biographers or literary
scholars.
Sarah A. Curtis, French History, vol 26, no 4, December 2012
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