Letters Written in France

, by Williams, Helen Maria; Fraistat, Neil; Lanser, Susan Sniader

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ISBN: 9781551112558 | 1551112558
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Copyright: 8/1/2001

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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.

Acknowledgments

(2)

Introduction

(42)

A Brief Chronology

(2)

Helen Maria Williams

Contemporary Historical Events

(6)

A Note on the Text

(2)

Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790

(90)

Appendix A: Excerpts From Later Volumes of Williams's Letters from France

151

(40)

1. Letters from France: Containing Many New Anecdotes (1792)

151

(6)

2. Letters from France: Containing ...Interesting and Original Information, vol. I (1793)

157

(6)

3. Letters from France: Containing ...Interesting and Original Information, vol. II (1793)

163

(6)

4. Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [May 1793-July 1794], vol. I (1795)

169

(4)

5. Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [May 1793-July 1794], vol. II (1795)

173

(4)

6. Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes ...during the Tyranny of Robespierre (1795)

177

(8)

7. Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France [July 1794-95] (1796)

185

(6)

Appendix B: Selected Poetry

191

(22)

Williams

1. ``To Sensibility''

192

(2)

2. A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade

194

(9)

3. ``The Bastille, A Vision'' (from for Julia, a Novel; Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces)

203

(4)

4. A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem

207

(6)

Appendix C: Critical Reviews of Letters Written in France

213

(8)

1. The Analytical Review

213

(1)

2. The General Magazine

214

(1)

3. The Monthly Review

215

(1)

4. The Universal Magazine

216

(1)

5. The Critical Review

217

(1)

6. The Gentleman's Magazine

218

(1)

7. The English Review

219

(2)

Appendix D: Other Contemporary Responses to Letters Written in France

221

(14)

1. ``On Reading `Letters Written from France'''

221

(1)

Edward Jerningham

2. Thraliana

221

(1)

Hester Thrale Piozzi

3. Two Letters

222

(3)

Anna Seward

4. Society of Friends of the Constitution at Rouen

225

(2)

5. Letters on the Female Mind

227

(2)

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins

6. The Prelude (1805), Book IX

229

(6)

William Wordsworth

Appendix E: Contemporary Responses to Williams

235

(8)

1. William Wordsworth

235

(1)

2. James Boswell

236

(1)

3. The Anti-Jacobin Review

237

(1)

4. Mary Pilkington

237

(1)

5. Henry Crabb Robinson

238

(2)

6. Williams's Obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine

240

(3)

Appendix F: The French Revolution: Selected Primary Documents

243

(20)

1. Declaration of The Rights of Man and Citizen

243

(3)

2. ``Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen''

246

(3)

Olympe de Gouges

3. From Address to the National Assembly Supporting Abolition of the Slave Trade

249

(4)

4. The Fete de la Federation as described by the London Times

253

(7)

5. Beneficial Effects of the French Revolution

260

(3)

Appendix G: The French Revolution: Selected Early British Responses

263

(28)

1. A Discourse on the Love of Our Country

263

(3)

Richard Price

2. Reflections on the Revolution in France

266

(7)

Edmund Burke

3. A Vindication of the Rights of Men

273

(3)

Mary Wollstonecraft

4. The Rights of Man

276

(6)

Thomas Paine

5. Village Politics

282

(4)

Hannah More

6. ``To a Great Nation''

286

(2)

Anna Barbauld

7. ``Instructions ...for the Mob in England''

288

(3)

Mary Alcock

Selected Bibliography

291

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