Letters written in France
Subtitle: in the Summer 1790, to a friend in England, containing various anecdotes relative to the French Revolution
By: Helen Maria Williams.
Series: Broadview literary texts
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Peterborough, Ont; Orchard Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827 -- Correspondence.; Du Fossé, Augustin François Thomas, 1750-1833.; Lettres de cachet.; Detention of persons -- France -- History -- 18th century.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: "Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. Her twenty-six letters recounting Old Regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as a sublime spectacle."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295).
Originally published: London : T. Cadell, 1790.