Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I

Stephen Bending, Stephen Bygrave

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English

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
01 May 2007

European history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Gender studies: women; Classic travel writing

Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings

A seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.

By: Stephen Bending
Edited by: Stephen Bygrave
Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.973kg
ISBN: 9781851968626
ISBN 10: 1851968628
Series: Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings
Pages: 1008
Publication Date: 01 May 2007
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active

Part I Volumes 1 & 2 Helen Maria Williams, Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes which Passed in Various Departments of France during the Tyranny of Robespierre (1796) Written at a moment of optimism after the brutal politics of the Terror, Helen Maria Williams's letters (drawn from her bestselling account of France in the 1790s) combine the sentimental language of sympathy with an account of the horrors of Republican violence and a detailed narrative of Robespierre's rise and fall. Volume 3 Helen Maria Williams, A Tour in Switzerland (1798) Having fled to Switzerland following her critical account of Robespierre Williams's 1798 book relates the electrifying effects of the Revolution on the cantons; it combines an account of the topography of the Alps with an acerbic and sceptical commentary on the claim that liberty inevitably accompanies peace. Charlotte West, A Ten Years' Residence in France, During the Severest Part of the Revolution ... 1787 to 1797 (1821) Charlotte West who, like Williams, celebrated the fall of the Bastille and was later imprisoned by the republic, records the corruption, paranoia and violence of the Terror both in the provinces and in Paris: she claims to host the French royal family after they are turned back from Varennes and glimpses a 'gloomy' and 'mischievous' Napoleon.