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 travelogue 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. Volume 2 includes coverage of the Alps, Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.

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Product details
- Date Published: October 2013
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108065955
- length: 740 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
- weight: 0.94kg
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
1. Introduction
2. Comparative view of the spirit of commerce
3. Amusements of Paris
4. Road from Basil into the canton of Soleure
5. Lavater
6. Country from Basil to Zuric
7. Canton of Basil
8. Government of the canton of Basil
9. Curiosities of Basil
10. Lucerne
11. Altorf
12. Top of St Gothard
13. Valley of Levantine
14. Government of the Levantine valley
15. Government of the canton of Uri
16. Giornico
17. Installation of the bailiff of Lugano
18. A storm on the lake
19. History of an emigrant family
20. Visit to the Grisons
21. Val Calenca state of society
22. St Bernadin. Volume 2:
22[a]. Ascent to the glaciers
23. Source of the Rhone
24. Coire
25. Grison mode of negociating
26. Baths of Pffyffer
27. Glaris
28. Lake of Zurich
29. Return to Lucerne
30. Tell's chapel
31. Cabinets of natural history in Switzerland
32. Autumnal views on the Jura
33. Excursions round Neufchatel
34. Vevay
35. Fribourg
36. Arrival at Berne
37. Reclamations of the Pays de Vaud
38. State of the peasantry and manufactures in the canton of Berne
39. Trial of the members of the festival
40. Discontents of the popular party
Appendix.
Author
Helen Maria Williams