Cinderella of the Breton Polders: suffering and escape in the notebooks of a young, female farm-servant in the 1880s
Virginie Desgranges (1868–1887), was born into an impoverished family on the Brittany/Normandy border. Her father, who died when she ten, was a rag-and-bone man. At the request of folklorist, she filled eleven notebooks with a mixture of songs, traditional tales and three longer, semi-autobiographi...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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