Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… country it is social pleasure that sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140 ) . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of … first chronicle of events across the Channel dates to this trip. This first volume was followed by seven more, forming Letters from France (1790-1796), which was published in London by T. Cadell (then G. G. and J. Robinson). 1 The first … Dismallo running the literary gantlet’, Library of Congress, n° 2004669855, 1790. 1 . In a modern, facsimile edition, Letters from France (LF) forms two series comprising four volumes each (Letters from France by Helen Maria Williams, 2 …
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