The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
In the specific literary tradition of the French Renaissance and its successors, the sixty-seventh tale of the Heptaméron influenced subsequent writers who were working with similar material.
The figure of the woman abandoned and surviving — finding within herself resources that the world that abandoned her did not know she had — appears in various forms across the literary tradition of the following centuries.
But the specific story of Marguerite de la Rocque is not simply one instance of a recurring pattern.
It is a documented historical event, which gives it a weight that purely fictional treatments of similar themes do not have.
The woman on the island was real.
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