La Vagabonde assise – space, place and the meaning of home in Colette and other women writers

Nick Hewitt wrote wonderfully well about the significance of different places in French history and culture, our lives. Colette was a chronicler places, from famous childhood house garden Burgundy, to Brittany, Provence course Paris. But as her writing moves across regions houses, home recurs crucial place emotional landscape human life. also always attentive relationship between canonical ‘minor’ authors, interplay socio-political moment cultural production. In this article is examined vital recurring theme not only work but that lesser-known female contemporaries – for has particular practical meanings women.