Name: A Woman at Bay
Author: Sibilla Aleramo

Woman at Bay is an English translation of Sibilla A leramo s Una Donna, a novel which has been put into French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish, and which made, when it appeared in the leading Italian magazine, Nuova A ntologia, a profound impression upon the public, and was a storm-centre for vehement discussion. The novel with a purpose, if one except Cena s The Forewarners (G li A mmonitori) and Fogazzaro s The Saint (II Santo), now scarcely exists in I taly, where the popular novelists are content to make faithful transcripts of aristocratic, bourgeois, or peasant life; but this moving story belongs to that class of fiction. It is in the form of an autobiography of a young woman who seeks to escape from the brutalising yoke of a man to whom the severity of the Italian law regarding divorce binds her. Of the author of A Woman at Bay, who screens her identity under the pen-name of Sibilla A leramo, Maria Pastore Mucchi (writing in Putnam sand The Reader, July, 1908) says :A magnetic and genial woman herself. Sibilla A leramo infuses humanity and energy into the hearts of those who approach her. She is an apostle of ideas, which she not only spreads in writing, but also puts into actual practice, with an enlightened and practical propaganda. Besides this, without speaking of it to any one (and I record this for the first time), at Rome, where she lives, she gives her services freely to a hospital for infirm children, and, like the protagonist of her novel, has become a social mother. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

A Woman at Bay - Una Donna

Sibilla Aleramo

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