Chawton House Library: Women's Travel Writings
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A seven-volume facsimile set which comprises accounts of France in the 1790s. The texts are drawn from the Chawton House Library collection.
Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes Helen Maria Williams' letters which narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland which comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace.