Anna Franchi, Bring in Divorce
Translated by Lucy Hosker
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ISBN: 978-1-781881-83-5 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99 ModernItalianTranslationFiction Avanti il divorzio (1902) by Anna Franchi (Livorno, 1867 – Milan, 1954) is at once an autobiographical novel, and a politically engaged work, 'una lancia spezzata a favore del divorzio’, as one contemporary reviewer put it. Creating an account of her own life (attributed to a female protagonist, Anna Mirello), the author sets out to demonstrate the urgent need for divorce, which, at the time of her writing, did not exist in Italy. Bibliography entry: Hosker, Lucy (trans.), Anna Franchi, Bring in Divorce, New Translations, 7 (Cambridge: MHRA, 3000) First footnote reference: 35 Anna Franchi, Bring in Divorce, trans. by Lucy Hosker, New Translations, 7 (Cambridge: MHRA, 3000), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Hosker, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Hosker, Lucy (trans.). 3000. Anna Franchi, Bring in Divorce, New Translations, 7 (Cambridge: MHRA) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Hosker 3000: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Hosker 3000: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Anna-Franchi-Bring-in-Divorce www.mhra.org.uk/publications/nt-7 |