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My Walks Around London by Flora Tristan

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Flora Tristan was an exceptional woman of the XIX century. She is better known as the grandmother of Paul Gauguin but she deserves recognition for her own life and achievements. She was born in Paris as the illegitimate child of a wealthy peruvian who died when she was three years old. She suffered poverty throughout her childhood and early adulthood but her indomitable spirit made her work towards the improvement of conditions for women and workers in the XIX century. She visited London four times and wrote this book as an observation of what she saw in the social and political scene of the time. After the publication of this book she saw the need for organizing labor into an international union and decided to tour France to promote the idea. She died of a stroke in Bordeaux in 1844 at the age of forty one. Her grandson, Paul Gauguin, introduced her to the twentieth century with the publication of his memoirs in 1918.

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1842

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Flore Celestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso better known as Flora Tristan was a French-Peruvian socialist writer and activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argued that the progress of women's rights was directly related with the progress of the working class. Her theories had a trong influence on Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Charles Fourier. She wrote several works, the best known of which are Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838), Promenades in London (1840), and The Workers' Union (1843).

Tristan was also the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin.

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957 reviews25 followers
April 27, 2016
Absolutamente moderna en su forma de enfrentar los problemas para conseguir la información que busca, y en su prosa ligera y directa, a la vez, decimonónica hasta la médula en muchos de sus puntos de vista y sus prejuicios.
Una lectura a ratos dura por las miserias que retrata, a ratos divertida por el espíritu aventurero y curioso de Flora y a ratos exasperante por sus prejuicios nacionales y religiosos entre otros.
En conjunto un libro fascinante por permitirnos ver el Londres del materialismo despiadado de principios del XIX desde los ojos de una mujer adelantada a su tiempo.
Parece que Dickens se quedaba casi corto en su descripción de las miserias británicas en la época...
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142 reviews5 followers
November 4, 2019
Découverte dans le cadre de mon M2 métiers du livre, cette lecture et cette autrice, militante féministe et résolument de gauche, m'a beaucoup plu. Je relirai certainement des passages !
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240 reviews9 followers
March 20, 2023
Description et critique de Londres, son climat, ses habitants, sa politique au XIXe siècle par une femme française.
Mention spéciale au chapitre sur les femmes 💪
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October 1, 2024
Difficile d'émettre un avis sur ce texte à la fois plein de généralisations qui piquent les yeux aujourd'hui, et soulevant bien des réalités d'inégalités sociales qui persistent deux siècles plus tard. Il faut sans doute le prendre comme tout autre récit de voyage de l'époque, comme un texte personnel et non un essai a proprement parlé. Je suis contente d'avoir découvert cette militante par le biais de son écrit.
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November 24, 2020
Intéressant si on s'intéresse à la question des inégalités en Angleterre mais perso j'apprécie pas le style et le thème abordé est pas ce qui me passionne le plus quoi (oui j'ai dû lire ce livre pour les cours)
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