SA was the pen name of Marta Felicina Faccio (1976-1960); this is her unforgettable autobiographical novel, published in her native Italy in 1906. Both an education sentimentale and a very early awakening of a feminist consciousness, the author comes to acknowledge her domestic entrapment and need for self-determination. A powerful and sometimes shocking portrait of a woman’s life in late C19th Italy. Ferrante’s grandmother, as it were, and quite as austere. First publication in English.