Renée Mauperin as "Vierge moderne": Documenting adolescence.

Beth W. Gale. "Renee Mauperin as "Vierge moderne": Documenting adolescence," Romance Quarterly 53.1 (Winter 2006): pp. 43-6.

Abstract:
The Goncourt brothers, Edmond Goncourt and Jules Goncourt document in their novel Renee Mauperin the basic conflict between a new brand of young woman and the society against whose laws she continually rebelled. Their insistence on the documentary aspects of their work is read as a wake up call to France, which had created a group of newly independent and outspoken young women who were forced into constrictive and outdated influence.