Ourika
By: Claire de Durfort ; translated into English with an introd. and epilogue by John Fowles.
Contributors: Fowles, John, 1926-
Publisher: W. T. Taylor
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Austin, [Tex.]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Women, Black -- Fiction.; Africans -- France -- Fiction.; Race relations -- Fiction.; France -- Fiction.
Description: Centers around the true story of a woman who was purchased as a slave as a child by the colonial administrator of Senegal. She was given as a gift to the rich de Beauvau family and raised as a daughter. The story follows her struggles to fit into French society.
Notes: "500 copies ... printed."