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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

autobiography by Beauvoir
Also known as: “MĂ©moires d’une jeune fille rangĂ©e”
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, first and best-known book of a four-volume autobiography by Simone de Beauvoir, published in French as MĂ©moires d’une jeune fille rangĂ©e in 1958.

In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, de Beauvoir included travel stories, set pieces, metaphors, intimate portraits, philosophical musings, and desultory political comments as she described her early years, when she tried to “get other people interested in her soul.” The book enjoyed critical and popular success, in part because of its clear prose and its warmth and flashes of humour.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.