Author: Deborah Kennedy
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Eventually settling in Paris with her mother and two sisters, Williams hosted a Parisian salon that was frequented by many of Europe's most important politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers, including J. P. Brissot, Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Alexander von Humboldt.".
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution
Author: Deborah Kennedy
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Eventually settling in Paris with her mother and two sisters, Williams hosted a Parisian salon that was frequented by many of Europe's most important politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers, including J. P. Brissot, Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Alexander von Humboldt.".
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755112
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Eventually settling in Paris with her mother and two sisters, Williams hosted a Parisian salon that was frequented by many of Europe's most important politicians, artists, writers, and thinkers, including J. P. Brissot, Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and Alexander von Humboldt.".
Letters Written in France
Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460403657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book 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 sublime spectacle.
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460403657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book 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 sublime spectacle.
An Eye-witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams
Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827), English poet, novelist, and chronicler of the French Revolution, here vividly recounts her experiences in France during the Terror. Arrested in the fall of 1793, Williams records with passion and sorrow the degeneration of the Revolution into chaos and murder. She sketches the colorful personalities of her friends and acquaintances (Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Georges-Jacques Danton) and enemies (Maximilien Robespierre, Louis-Antoine de St. Just, Jean Paul Marat), while all the time displaying her enduring optimism that Revolution would eventually succeed in liberty and justice for people everywhere.
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827), English poet, novelist, and chronicler of the French Revolution, here vividly recounts her experiences in France during the Terror. Arrested in the fall of 1793, Williams records with passion and sorrow the degeneration of the Revolution into chaos and murder. She sketches the colorful personalities of her friends and acquaintances (Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Georges-Jacques Danton) and enemies (Maximilien Robespierre, Louis-Antoine de St. Just, Jean Paul Marat), while all the time displaying her enduring optimism that Revolution would eventually succeed in liberty and justice for people everywhere.
The Face of Hope
Author: Laura Marie Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Keywords: British women writers, French Revolution, Epistolary genre, Helen Maria Williams, Physiognomy, English Romanticism.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Keywords: British women writers, French Revolution, Epistolary genre, Helen Maria Williams, Physiognomy, English Romanticism.
Letters from France;
Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Crisis in Representation
Author: Steven Blakemore
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637142
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.
Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
Author: Harriet Branson Applewhite
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064137
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064137
Category : Revolutions
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Comparative historical investigations of gender and political culture in 18th- and 19th-century revolutionary movements
Sovay
Author: Celia Rees
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599905736
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
In 1794 England, the beautiful Sovay dons a man's cloak and holds up stagecoaches in broad daylight. Posing as a highway robber began as a lark to test a suitor's devotion. But when she lifts the wallet of one of England's most dangerous men, Sovay begins to unravel a web of deceit and duplicity. Acclaimed author Celia Rees' talent for romance and intrigue are sure to thrill a paperback audience.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599905736
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
In 1794 England, the beautiful Sovay dons a man's cloak and holds up stagecoaches in broad daylight. Posing as a highway robber began as a lark to test a suitor's devotion. But when she lifts the wallet of one of England's most dangerous men, Sovay begins to unravel a web of deceit and duplicity. Acclaimed author Celia Rees' talent for romance and intrigue are sure to thrill a paperback audience.
Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England
Author: Helen Maria Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 1791
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 1791
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Crisis in Representation
Author: Steven Blakemore
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.