Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… very civilly to me and I shall visit her frequently, I rather like her, and I meet French company at her house. Her manners are affected, yet the simple goodness of her hearts [ sic ] continually breaks through the varnish, so that one … on both sides of the Channel. In her chronicles recounting the latter years of the Revolution ( Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic , 1801), Williams remained faithful to the epistolary model . 24 Although … Letters from France Containing Many New Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution and the Present State of French Manners, (London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792), p. 80. 17 . A cultural establishment that delivered lectures in …
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