… the traditional codes of sentiment, singularity and eccentricity. Loyalist travelogues such as those of Rachel Charlotte Biggs ( A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795 in 2 volumes, 1796) or Louise E. Beaumont (1798) … ideas, and even affected their principles of religion’ (Beaumont 270). Using a similar strategy, Rachel Charlotte Biggs, a middle-class woman originally from Lambeth, travelled to France with her husband in May 1792, keeping a diary … solemnized on the part of the people with no other intention but that of exact obedience to the edicts of government’ (Biggs 127). To a certain extent, Beaumont’s and Biggs’s travelogues offer a negative version of Helen Maria Williams’s …