Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
… raging debates over freedom and the nature of the government following the Fall of the Bastille and the publication of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) . With the breakdown of the corporate structures and the collapse … 11 . Journal de Paris, 18 janvier 1790. Helen Maria Williams ’s Letters Written in France , published the same year as Burke’s anti-revolutionary pamphlet, offers a literary account of this dream of social happiness, of man’s regeneration …
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