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Article: Spectacle of the guillotine: Helen Maria Williams and the Reign of Terror.
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- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1994
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In November 1790, Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France; Mary Wollstonecraft replied with A Vindication of the Rights of Men, and in the same month, Helen Maria Williams published her celebratory and celebrated Letters written in France, the first in a series of books which would soon outdistance Burke and Wollstonecraft's work by providing an ongoing history of the Revolution for the British reading public. Williams moved to Paris in 1792, joining other British supporters of the Revolution, and she lived there for most her life. By the time Burke and Wollstonecraft died in 1797, Williams had published two four-volume series of Letters from ...