Letters Written in France: In the Summer 1790, to a Friend in England; Containing Various Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution (Broadview Literary Texts) - Softcover

"At last, a modern edition of Williams's absorbing and familiar Letters Written in France . Fraistat and Lanser edit with tact and impeccable scholarship. Their introduction to the French Revolution is a gem in itself, an international 'thriller' well designed for today's reader." - Nanora Sweet, University of Missouri, St. Louis "Williams's eloquent and dramatic eye-witness account of the French Revolution, Letters Written in France , is a work central to the study of Romanticism, history, and women's literature. Expertly edited, this splendid edition contains a brilliant, informative introduction that situates Williams in the landscape of revolutionary, literary, and women's history, offers very helpful scholarly annotations, and is packed with contextual materials. This is another Broadview gem." - Harriet Kramer Linkin, New Mexico State University

Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to an England fearful of another civil war. Her twenty-six letters recounting old regime tyranny and revolutionary events provide both an apology for the Revolution and a representation of it as sublime spectacle.