Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Alexander von Humboldt ( Researches Concerning Inhabitants of America , 1814) and Xavier de Maistre ( The Leper of the City of Aoste , 1817) into English. Having witnessed the historical events of the Revolution first-hand, she developed a … seems to express the difficulties – indeed the impossibility – of circumscribing the acceleration, complexity, multiplicity and even chaos of revolutionary events. Offering a literary tomb to the Girondists, whose memory she was to uphold … ‘Women, as well as men, are admitted to these coffee-houses; for the English idea of finding ease, comfort or felicity, in societies where women are excluded, never enters into the imagination of a Frenchman’, Letters from France …
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
Encyclopedia