Chapter Introduction: biography and memory -- chapter 1 Childhood stories -- chapter 2 Slave and pariah -- chapter 3 Traveller -- chapter 4 Woman author -- chapter 5 Social scientist -- chapter 6 Socialist -- chapter 7 Mother of the workers -- chapter 8 Lover of humanity -- chapter 9 'The first strong woman' -- chapter 10 Melodramatic hero -- chapter 11 Saving woman -- chapter 12 Death and birth of a legend
Summary
Examines the nineteenth-century French social critic and reformer's life by exploring the ways she represented herself in her writings and how others portrayed her in paintings and literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-272) and index
