Two Lives Reflected

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Gluckel von Hameln or Glikl and Marie de L'Incarnation lived mirror like lives in Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis. The two women were very devout in their religion. They were both well-educated women. They were both motivated women. They both broke the boundaries that women faced in the 17th Century.

Glikl was a devout Jew. She married at the age of twelve as most of the Jews did unlike Christian women of the times that wed at 18. The two lived with each of their parents for a year after marriage. This was a typical custom of Jewish marriages in the 17th Century. They then moved out into a rented house and two servants. This was all that they were allowed to have. She married off her children in several different cities. This was a Jewish strategy of marrying children in cities that were far off and some that were close to home. The reasoning behind this was that there were insufficient Ashkenazim of the proper status to go around. They also took advantage of the Jewish law permitting first cousins to marry with one of their daughters.

Marie de L'Incarnation was an Ursuline sister in Quebec. She was of the two women who founded the first Ursuline c

After Glikl's husband died she took over his gem trading business. Before he died he was one of the most prosperous of Hamburg's Ashkenazim. After he passed Glikl guided the company beyond what Haim ever tried. She pushed the business to farther places and even took on young women as apprentices. She then wrote her memoirs that were for her children to teach them about life and inform them about her life.

Marie made it to the New World. She broke language barriers to spread the word of God. She was one of two women to establish the first Ursuline convent in the new world. She helped build and rebuild the church. She wrote her memoirs. These told of her torture, self-deprivation, her internal agony, her struggle to become closer to God, and the resulting effect of psychological torment she received.

These women lived very similar lives even though they lived miles apart and were of different religions. Both Glikl and Marie overcame the adversities that they faced as women in the 17th Century to become successful in their lives. They were also some of the only 17th Century women to leave an accurate, consistent, and detailed summary of their lives.

onvent and school for girls in North America. Marie spent years insisting on Christian truth to people that her countrymen intruded upon. She would take on a pastoral role to the Buisson wagoners and stablemen. She would get them

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