num_pages: 237
description: British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.
language: English
title: British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World
titlecomplete: British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan