%0 Journal Article
%T European woman in the America at the end of the 19th century
%A Wierzbowska, Ewa Małgorzata
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.16.011.4851
%N Numéro 9 Actes de résistance
%P 171-194
%K Krysinska, American woman, the New World, American mores, multiracial organism
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/une-europeenne-en-amerique-a-la-fin-du-xixe-siecle
%X Marie Krysinska and her husband Georges Bellenger made two voyages to the United States. Being an attentive observer, Krysinska is interested in the architecture of the New World, theaters, museums, stores, landscapes, mores, everyday life. After the return to France, she publishes her memories in the form of the articles and short stories. The favored theme is the American woman and her way of being, but also the life of the minorities and the functioning of the multiracial social organism. The author admires the social solidarity, all the more impressive, for without an equivalent in France. The old Europe seems to be dozing in its traditions and prejudices, but the writer is not dazzled by this openness of the spirit and the heart, which have also a negative aspect. Krysinska’s “American” writings play the same role as Voltaire’s Letters on the English – a vaccine that opens the mind and allows to cast away the prejudices.