Incendiary women: Edith Thomas, the Second World War and writing women into history
Published online on February 16, 2026
Abstract
French Cultural Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 173-183, May 2026.
This article examines the wartime writing of French resister and historian Edith Thomas. It argues that Thomas's collection of fictional clandestine short stories,Contesd’Auxois (1943), provides an early social history of the French Resistance. It ...
This article examines the wartime writing of French resister and historian Edith Thomas. It argues that Thomas's collection of fictional clandestine short stories,Contesd’Auxois (1943), provides an early social history of the French Resistance. It ...