Other Fiction Audoux, Marguerite: Marie Claire’s Workshop, v.1, 3 September 2008.

[Patricia]

Marie Claire’s Workshop (L’Atelier de Marie Claire)
By Marguerite Audoux (1863–1937)
Translated by F. S. Flint (New York, 1920).

A sequel to ‘Marie Claire’ [already uploaded] but this semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel can be read independently.

The young Marie Claire arrives in Paris in the 1880s and takes a job as a sewing-machinist in a dressmaker’s workshop in Montparnasse. Both the owners and the seamstresses are at the mercy of a demanding clientele, who rarely pay up. Working-class life in Paris , described in beautiful prose, from the viewpoint of a working woman.

For more on this author see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Audoux

This was made from scans at The Internet Archive.

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