Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France: from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris

Letters containing a sketch of the politics of France: from the thirty-first of May 1793, till the twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the scenes which have passed in the prisons of Paris

Abolitionist and feminist Helen Maria Williams was an important participant in the revolutionary discourse of the late eighteenth century, alongside Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine. In 1790, Williams joined a group of British radicals residing in Paris and hosted a salon that attracted leading revolutionaries. Her Letters gave British readers a sustained eyewitness account of the French Revolution, suggesting France as a model for England. Though sympathetic to the Revolution, she was jailed for her British citizenship during the Reign of Terror. She became a French citizen in 1817.

Williams, Helen Maria

Printed for Mathew Carey, William Young, Thomas Dobson, H. & P. Rice, and John Ormrod

1796

Philadelphia

1796

Helen Maria Williams — abolitionist and political radical

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