Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… one would be more inclined, at least I should, to love than to admire her. 7 As a member of the Amis des Noirs’s first society in Paris, Williams had close connections with the members of the British Club ‘The Friends of the Rights of Man, … of Louis XVI in January 1793. The political surveillance that culminated in The Terror led to the disappearance of society sociability in Paris between 1792 and 1795 . 8 Williams’s choice to remain in France (where she caused a huge … of a prison sociability (LF II, 1, 3 ; II, 2, 3) brought about by multiple imprisonments, the disappearance of society sociability, and so on. While sociability was central to Letters as a whole, the epistolary form had evolved …
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