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Letters written in France, in the summer 1790, to a friend in England; ;containing various anecodotes relative to the French Revolution / Helen Maria Williams ; edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser ; associate editors: David Brookshire ... [et al.].

Title: Letters written in France, in the summer 1790, to a friend in England; ;containing various anecodotes relative to the French Revolution / Helen Maria Williams ; edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan S. Lanser ; associate editors: David Brookshire ... [et al.].
Author: Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827
Publication: Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2001.

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295 p. : ill., map, port.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

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Broadview literary texts

Uniform Title

Broadview literary texts

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Genre/Form

History
Personal correspondence
Correspondance privée.
Briefsammlung 1790.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295).

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Helen Maria Williams: A Brief Chronology -- Contemporary Historical Events -- A Note on the Text -- Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790 -- Excerpts From Later Volumes of Williams's Letters from France -- Letters from France: Containing Many New Anecdotes (1792) -- Letters from France: Containing ... Interesting and Original Information, vol. I (1793) -- Letters from France: Containing ... Interesting and Original Information, vol. II (1793) -- Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [May 1793-July 1794], vol. I (1795) -- Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [May 1793-July 1794], vol. II (1795) -- Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes ... during the Tyranny of Robespierre (1795) -- Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [July 1794-95] (1796) -- Selected Poetry by Williams -- "To Sensibility" -- A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade -- "The Bastille, A Vision" (from Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces) -- A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem -- Critical Reviews of Letters Written in France -- The Analytical Review -- The General Magazine -- The Monthly Review -- The Universal Magazine -- The Critical Review -- The Gentleman's Magazine -- The English Review -- Other Contemporary Responses to Letters Written in France -- Edward Jerningham, "On Reading 'Letters Written from France'" -- Hester Thrale Piozzi, from Thraliana -- Two Letters by Anna Seward -- Society of Friends of the Constitution at Rouen.

ISBN

1551112558 (pbk.)

OCLC

45557284
SCSB-11609794

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Harvard Library