Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution

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Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution

"Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) had a long and prolific career as a writer: she was a celebrated British poet, an influential translator of works of French literature and history, and an important British chronicler of the French Revolution in a series of books entitled Letters from France, published in eight volumes from 1790-1796.

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.".

"Deborah Kennedy's Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution is the first critical study to be published on this fascinating woman of letters: it is a comprehensively researched and lucidly written account of Williams's life and writing in the context of the major events taking place in England and France throughout her life.

Complicating and extending biography, Kennedy's richly textured and contextual discussion of this "literary celebrity of the French Revolution" combines social history, literary history, criticism, political and social history, and intellectual history, in a discussion that will appeal to general readers even while it makes an important contribution to the field of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies of women writers."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
276

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Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution
2002, Bucknell University Press, Associated University Presses
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-268) and index.

Published in
Lewisburg, [PA], London
Series
Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
821/.6, B
Library of Congress
PR3765.W54 Z76 2002, PR3765.W54Z76 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
276 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3954116M
Internet Archive
helenmariawillia0000kenn
ISBN 10
0838755119
LCCN
2001052900
OCLC/WorldCat
48399211
Library Thing
234717
Goodreads
1280085

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