The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque

She survived the island.

She survived the historical record’s systematic tendency to erase women’s experiences.

She is still here, in the pages of the Heptaméron and in the works of the scholars and writers who have kept her story alive.

She survived.

That is what she did.

It is what she continues to do.

The Absence Of Documents And What It Means

Scholars who work with the story of Marguerite de la Rocque frequently remark on the frustrating sparseness of the documentary record.