Letters written in France, in the Summer 1790, to a friend in England; containing, various anecdotes relative to the French revolution; and memoirs of Mons. and Madame du F----. By Helen Maria Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Helen Maria, 1762-1827.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Du Fosse, Augustin Francois Thomas, 1750-1833.

Du Fosse, Augustin Francois Thomas.

Du Fossé, Augustin François Thomas, 1750-1833.

Du Fossé, Augustin François Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],216,216-223p. )

Other Title:

Letters written in France,

Place of Publication:

Dublin : printed for G. Burnet, P. Wogan, P. Byrne J. Moore, J. Jones, A. Grueber, W. Jones, R. White, and J. Rice, [1791]

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 sublime spectacle.

Notes:

Mons. du F----. = Augustin François Thomas du Fossé (Tourneux, Bibl. de l'hist. de Paris pendant la rév. française 1, p.67).

With a half-title.

Text and register are continuous.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T94829.

OCLC:

642755638