The earth had need of me
Joanna Biggs: A nice girl like Simone, 16 April 2020
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,978 1 350 04717 4 Show More
by Kate Kirkpatrick.
Bloomsbury, 476 pp., £20, August 2019,
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me, a Memoir
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,978 1 78649 265 4 Show More
by Deirdre Bair.
Atlantic, 347 pp., £18.99, February 2020,
Diary of a Philosophy Student, Vol. II: 1928-29
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,978 0 252 04254 6 Show More
by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Barbara Klaw.
Illinois, 374 pp., £40, June 2019,
“... Almost from the moment she published The Second Sex in November 1949, Simone de Beauvoir was asked why she’d never written a female character who lived a free life, the sort she imagined in her final chapter, ‘The Independent Woman’. If the mother of 20th-century feminism couldn’t imagine a free woman, who could? At first she would answer brusquely ... ”
