author
Clarisse Bader
1840–1902
A pioneering French writer, she devoted much of her work to the history of women across different cultures and eras. Her books mix lively storytelling with wide-ranging historical research, from ancient India and Greece to modern France.
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La femme française dans les temps modernes
by Clarisse Bader
About the author
Born in Strasbourg on December 28, 1840, and later active in Paris, Clarisse Bader was a 19th-century French writer remembered for ambitious studies of women's lives in history. She set herself an unusually large task for her time: tracing the place of women across civilizations, especially in the ancient world and in French society.
Her best-known works include La femme dans l'Inde antique (1864), Femme grecque: étude de la vie antique (1872), and La femme française dans les temps modernes (1883). That last book brought her recognition from the Académie française, and it helped confirm her reputation as a serious popular historian of women's experience.
Bader died in Paris on February 5, 1902. Today she stands out as an early voice in the study of women's history: not a modern academic in the current sense, but a determined and curious author who opened subjects that many others had barely begun to explore.