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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2014
    31 October 2013
    ISBN:
    9781107326149
    9781108065948
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107326149
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 374 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe
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    The radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827) is best remembered for her eight-volume Letters from France (1790–6), charting the progress of the French Revolution. Having published poetry and a novel, Julia (1790), she travelled to France, where her salon welcomed the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and leading Girondists. Forced to flee the country in 1794, she went into exile in Switzerland for six months, travelling with the printer and political reformer John Hurford Stone (1763–1818). This two-volume account of the journeys she made during her time there, first published in 1798, documents what she sees as the failure of Swiss democracy. Highlighting the shortcomings of the Swiss government and the suffering of much of Swiss society through exploitation, Williams anticipates revolutionary activity in the cantons. Volume 1 concentrates primarily on Basel and its canton.

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