Memoirs of a Dutiful DaughterIn her memoirs, Simone de Beauvoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth century woman's struggle for independence. A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family. Beauvoir writes about rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class and striking out on her own with an