Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisèle d'Estoc

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Finding the Woman Who Didn’t Exist university of nebraska press · lincoln and london Melanie C.Hawthorne Finding theWoman Who Didn’t Exist The Curious Life of gisÈle d’estoc © 2013 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. An earlier version of chapter 4 first appeared as “Gisèle d’Estoc: Portraits of a Decadent Woman,” Nordlit 28 (2011) : 223–44. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hawthorne, Melanie. Finding the woman who didn’t exist : the curious life of Gisèle d’Estoc / Melanie C. Hawthorne. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8032-4034-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Estoc, Gisèle d’, 1863–ca. 1906. 2. Women authors, French—19th century—Biography. 3. Women sculptors— France—19th century—Biography. 4. Bisexual women—France—Biography. 5. Male impersonators—Biography. 6. Women anarchists—France—19th century— Biography. I. Title. II. Title: Curious life of Gisèle d’Estoc. PQ2240.E76Z65 2013 843'.8—dc23 2012032678 Set in Monotype Fournier Pro by Laura Wellington. Designed by A. Shahan. To Eunice Mahoney, who has been such an inspiration ...