The title is ironic: she knows this is as much her story. What sets Miller's book apart is its self-conscious rigour. Google Scholar De BEAUVOIR, Simone ( 1962) The Prime of Life, London: Andre Deutsch and Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. Google Scholar De BEAUVOIR, Simone ( 1961) Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, London: Andre Deutsch and Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. Both are concerned with Alzheimer's, or the separate but related disease of multi-infarct dementia both interweave a smattering of science with family history. De BEAUVOIR, Simone ( 1956) The Mandarins, Cleveland: World Publishing. A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with.
Most recently, we've had Linda Grant's Remind Me Who I Am, Again and Sue Miller's The Story of My Father. Such as-they-lay-dying missives can be produced by sons or husbands (remember Iris?), but daughters corner the market. First published in France in 1958, its the opening volume of an autobiographical trilogy. When Simone de Beauvoir wrote A Very Easy Death - a superbly savage account of her ageing mother's struggle with cancer - she gave birth to a new genre: a brand of memoir best described as care'n'tell. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is the first of Simone de Beauvoirs four autobiographies. Simone de Beauvoirs Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is a classic.
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