Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… she initially socialised when in France with people connected to the House of Orléans (1790-1791) and then struck up a friendship with Manon Roland 5 (whose husband was to be appointed interior minister in two Girondist governments), who … developed a largely affective approach to the subject in her Letters from France . Using the first opus’s make-believe friendship as a discursive device ( Letters Written in France in the Summer 1790 to a Friend in England ), she sought to …
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