1st Edition

Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part II

2064 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.

Volume 4 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 (1798), Volume 5 Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805, vol. I (1810), Volume 6 Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805, vol. II (1810), Volume 7 Anne Plumptre, A Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805, vol. III (1810)

Biography

Stephen Bending