1940s: (The Epidemics and the Legislation Captured in Jeanne’s Letters — the Epidemics and the Legislation Each a Complex Set of Circumstances Being Captured…

1940s: (The Epidemics and the Legislation Captured in Jeanne’s Letters — the Epidemics and the Legislation Each a Complex Set of Circumstances Being Captured in Jeanne Sylvain’s Letters as She Reported the Goings On of the LFAS and the Women’s Movement to Her Loved Ones, Sylvain’s Correspondences Echoing the Labyrinthine Archival Record and Historiography of the 1940s That Delineate the Quickened Pace of Local Grievances National Politics and Shifting Global Networks Colliding at Warp Speed by the End of the Decade Producing Among Other Things a Revolution): The epidemics and the legislation, each a complex set of circumstances, were captured in Jeanne Sylvain’s letters as she reported the goings on of the LFAS and the women’s movement to her loved ones. Sylvain’s correspondences echo the labyrinthine archival record and historiography of the 1940s that delineate the quickened pace of local grievances, national politics, and shifting global networks that collided into each other at warp speed by the end of the decade, producing, among other things, a revolution — Jeanne’s letters were simultaneously family correspondence, political intelligence, and inadvertent historiography, the private archive of a woman who could not stop noticing.