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Title: An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams

An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams

Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France

by Jack Fruchtman (Author)
©1997 Others 260 Pages
English Studies
Series: The Age of Revolution and Romanticism, Volume 19

Summary

Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827), English poet, novelist, and chronicler of the French Revolution, here vividly recounts her experiences in France during the Terror. Arrested in the fall of 1793, Williams records with passion and sorrow the degeneration of the Revolution into chaos and murder. She sketches the colorful personalities of her friends and acquaintances (Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Georges-Jacques Danton) and enemies (Maximilien Robespierre, Louis-Antoine de St. Just, Jean Paul Marat), while all the time displaying her enduring optimism that Revolution would eventually succeed in liberty and justice for people everywhere.

Details

Pages
260
Year
1997
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820431208
Language
English
Keywords
Terror passion sorrow chaos murder
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1997. 260 pp.

Biographical notes

Jack Fruchtman (Author)

The Editor: Jack Fruchtman, Jr. is Professor of Political Science at Maryland's Towson State University. He is the author of Thomas Paine: Appostle of Freedom, Thomas Paine and the Religion of Nature, and The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley as well as severalarticles and commentary in learned journals.

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Title: An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams