Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… the Restoration. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Correspondence France French Revolution Politics Women Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for literary and political circles. She frequented … in the Parisian cafés of 1791 by emphasising the importance of the female presence in French social practices: ‘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 Containing Many New Anecdotes …
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