Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory

Marilyn Yalom restores to history the most unforgettable chronicles of the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution. No other literature in the Western world offers such an early treasury of women recording their personal histories within the context of a great political catastrophe. Their stories describe how they participated, individually and collectively, in the revolutionary saga and how they sometimes succeeded in manipulating a political system designed to exclude them. (World Cat)