WOILLEZ, Catherine Thérèse. - Emma, ou le Robinson des Demoiselles. 3me édition.

Paris, Langlumé et Peltier, 1842.Sm.8vo. Original decorated boards. With engraved frontispiece, engraved titlepage and 2 steelengraved plates. 332 pp.First issued in 1835. - A robinsonnade in which the protagonist is a woman, conceived in the wake of countless imitations of Defoe's masterpiece The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). The French author, Woillez (1781-1859), was the author of a large number of novels, mostly children's books. - A popular French Robinsonnade with a female hero.

See/Hide Conditions of Sale