1st Edition

Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II vol 4

By Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave Copyright 2008
562 Pages
by Routledge

562 Pages
by Routledge

Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.

Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Select Bibliography, A Sketch of Modern France. In a Series of Letters to a Lady of Fashion. Written in the Years 1796 and 1797, during a Tour through France. By a Lady, Editorial Notes

Biography

Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave