Beauvoir read English with ease while Sartre did not, shaping her distinctive style.

Evidence

By contrast, Beauvoir (as she herself wrote to me in responding positively to my question as to whether she wished to receive copies of the papers from the fi rst meeting of the North American Sartre Society in 1985) read English with ease, a fact that strikes me as signifi cant in appreciating her own distinctive style, and that in any case demarcates a clear distance between them. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 529

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader historiography on Beauvoir-Sartre stylistic divergence and how linguistic access shaped their separate philosophical voices.