The Women Incendiaries is a historical account of the role of women during the 1871 Paris Commune, written by French historian Édith Thomas. The book was first published in French in 1963 as Les Pétroleuses and translated into English in 1966 by James and Starr Atkinson. The history puts special emphasis on the role of Louise Michel in the Commune's events.[1]
The librarian trade publication Library Journal's review wrote that the book's contemporary—the 1966 The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune by Alistair Horne—was more interesting with the same subject matter. As a result, the reviewer concluded that Thomas's book would have a smaller audience. The Atlantic's reviewer, however, praised Thomas's memorable characters. Both reviewers noted Thomas's positivity towards the Commune's events, a position one put as "impassioned indignation".[2]
References
- ^ "Rev. of The Women Incendiaries". Internet Bookwatch. September 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2017 – via Book Review Index Plus.
- ^ "The Women Incendiaries". Book Review Digest. 1966. p. 1197.
Further reading
- Calmy, Christophe (1964). "Review of Les "Pétroleuses"". Esprit (in French) (327): 697–699. ISSN 0014-0759. JSTOR 24257314.
- Handlin, Oscar (May 1966). "Rev. of The Women Incendiaries". The Atlantic. 217 (5): 125–127?. ISSN 0160-6506.
- Hufton, Olwen (December 1, 1966). "The Group". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504.
- Jellinek, Frank (October 16, 1966). "Paris Was Burning". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
- Kaufmann, Dorothy (2004). Édith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 3, 140, 184–187, 197, 206. ISBN 978-0-8014-4223-0. OCLC 937093595.
- Maitron, Jean (1965). "Review of Les 'Pétroleuses'". Le Mouvement social (in French) (52): 135–136. doi:10.2307/3777393. ISSN 0027-2671. JSTOR 3777393.
- Marquant, Robert (1966). "Review of Les "Pétroleuses"". Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes (in French). 124 (1): 334–336. ISSN 0373-6237. JSTOR 42956999.
- Rowbotham, Sheila (2010). "Sheila Rowbotham on Edith Thomas's The Women Incendiaries (Desert Island Texts?: A Symposium)" (PDF). Women: A Cultural Review. 21 (1): 51–52. doi:10.1080/09574040903558420. ISSN 0957-4042. S2CID 194089736.
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