Letters from France

by Helen Maria Williams

Vivid images of France in turmoil. First-hand view of the French Revolution and its aftermath. Reprint of the 1790-1796 editions. Eight volumes in two.

2048 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1975

About the author

Helen Maria Williams (1761 or 1762 - 1827) was a English novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. She was an abolitionist, religious dissenter and supported of the French Revolution. Her 1786 Poems touch on topics ranging from religion to a critique of Spanish colonial practices. She allied herself with the cult of feminine sensibility, deploying it politically in opposition to war ("Ode on the Peace," a 1786 poem about Peru) and slavery (the abolitionist "Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade," 1788)."