Flora Tristan

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Standard Name: Tristan, Flora
Birth Name: Flora Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristan Moscoso
Married Name: Flora Chazal
French writer FT refused to limit herself to feminine genres, and her writing enjoyed limited success during her lifetime. She did, however, gain a degree of notoriety through the drama of her life, which culminated in her husband's attempt to murder her. FT 's political pamphlets and travel narratives, published in Paris, promote her views regarding the oppression of women and the working classes, advocate reform, and advance early feminist theory. Her Promenades dans Londres analyses early Victorian British parlimentary and social systems in order to compare them with those of France.
Black and white photograph of a painting of Flora Tristan. She is depicted from the side with her face turned to face the viewer. She is wearing a dress with long flared sleeves that is opened at the front to reveal a light ruffled shirt. Her hair is partially pinned in a bun at the back of her head with the rest of her hair hanging down in ringlets around her face.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Anna Wheeler
She nevertheless became an important link between French and English socialists, a friend not only of Fourier, but also of Flora Tristan , Frances Wright , Desirée Veret , and Jeanne Victoire .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Intertextuality and Influence Julia O'Faolain
The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation...
Textual Features Cecily Mackworth
She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...

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Texts

Tristan, Flora. Dieu Franchise Liberté: pétition pour l’abolition de la peine de mort. Impr. de Mme Huzard, 1838.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books, 1980.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade. Translators Beik, Doris and Paul Beik, Indiana University Press, 1993.
Darr, William, and Flora Tristan. “Foreward”. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840, translated by. Dennis Palmer et al., Charles River Books, 1980, p. v - xi.
Tristan, Flora. “Introduction to her Life”. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade, edited by Doris Beik and Paul Beik, Indiana University Press, 1993, p. ix - xxi.
Tristan, Flora, and Michel Collinet. Le tour de France. Editor Puech, Jules L., Editions Tête de feuilles, 1973.
Tristan, Flora. Méphis. Ladvocat, 1838, 2 vols.
Tristan, Flora. Nécessité de faire un bon accueil aux femmes étrangères. Delaunay, 1835.
Tristan, Flora. Pérégrinations d’une paria, 1833-1834. A. Bertrand, 1838, 2 vols.
Tristan, Flora. Pétition pour le rétablissement du divorce. Impr. de Mme Huzard, 1838.
Tristan, Flora. Promenades dans Londres. H.-L. Delloye; W. Jeffs, 1840.
Tristan, Flora. Union ouvrière. Edition populaire, Prévot, 1843.