Title: Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
First published: August 2, 2005
Description: A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.

She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Childhood and youth, Biography, Interpersonal relations, French Authors, Biographies, Ecrivains français. 20e siècle. Biographies, Écrivains français, Ensaio Frances, Écrivaines françaises, Ecrivains franais, Feminists, Women authors, Authors, biography, Beauvoir, simone de, 1908-1986, Philosophers, france, French Women authors
Places: France, Paris (France)
People: Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
Time periods: 20th century