Kathryn Bryan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6574674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Bryan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bryan |
| SIGNATURE | BRYAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0317-3911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Les Avorteuses de Paris’
In November 1891, the most famous abortion case of nineteenth-century France made the headlines: the Affaire Thomas. One hundred and fifty suspects were initially investigated by the police, of which 118 were then investigated by the prosecutor, before fifty defendants were brought to court, including the abortionist Constance Thomas, ‘La Mort aux gosses’. This faiseuse d’anges captured the public imagination, with help from extended coverage lik…
Invisible chain
In L’Événement (2000), the author’s retelling of her experience of an illicit abortion in 1964, Annie Ernaux writes of a ‘chaîne invisible où se côtoient des artistes, des écrivaines, des héroïnes de roman’, stating that ‘[s]on histoire est en elles’. There is a timelessness to Ernaux’s abortion narrative, jumping between two temporal spaces: the contemporary narrator’s experience of writing the novel at the turn of the millennium, and that of th…
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Invisible chain
In L’Événement (2000), the author’s retelling of her experience of an illicit abortion in 1964, Annie Ernaux writes of a ‘chaîne invisible où se côtoient des artistes, des écrivaines, des héroïnes de roman’, stating that ‘[s]on histoire est en elles’. There is a timelessness to Ernaux’s abortion narrative, jumping between two temporal spaces: the contemporary narrator’s experience of writing the novel at the turn of the millennium, and that of th…
‘Les Avorteuses de Paris’
In November 1891, the most famous abortion case of nineteenth-century France made the headlines: the Affaire Thomas. One hundred and fifty suspects were initially investigated by the police, of which 118 were then investigated by the prosecutor, before fifty defendants were brought to court, including the abortionist Constance Thomas, ‘La Mort aux gosses’. This faiseuse d’anges captured the public imagination, with help from extended coverage lik…
Abortion (2 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Pregnancy (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Historical and Scientific Studies (1 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 works) · Literature and Culture Studies (1 works)