Rare Early Feminism, Francoise De Graffigny 1748 Love Letters Letters From A Peruvian Woman.

Provenance Dr. Adrien GUÉBHARD Saint-Vallier-de-Thiey.
Dated a year after the first edition, only one copy of this 1748 Paris printing was found in institutions at the John Carter Brown Library. Possibly a pirated edition.
Label of "Bibliothèque Populaire" book, No. 349, on spine "Lecture en Famille”.
Lettres d'une Péruvienne, published in Paris, 1748.
"Letters from a Peruvian Woman."
This is a notable work by Françoise de Graffigny, first published in 1747. It is an epistolary novel that gained great popularity in 18th-century France and beyond. The book tells the story of Zilia, a Peruvian woman taken to France, exploring themes of cultural dislocation, gender, and social critique through her letters. The 1748 edition shown here is among the early reprints of this influential work.