Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850
Women's Travel Writing, 1750-1850

Author: Caroline Franklin

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-30

Total Pages: 3102

ISBN-13: 1000743632

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The Romantic Period saw a massive advance in British colonial expansion, which was accompanied by a corresponding expansion in travel writings. These published letters, journals and books provided British readers with detailed accounts of new and exotic locations and thus engaged the reading public with expansionist enterprises. Covering the period of the French Revolution up until Victoria’s ascendancy to the throne, and featuring journeys spanning France and central Europe, India, and South America, this collection brings together some of the most interesting travel accounts written by women at this time. The authors included come from a variety of social backgrounds and their written styles are as varied as their journeys. For instance, Williams and Morgan were professional writers who may be described as ‘feminists’, while Fay and Falconbridge were ordinary women who had been through extraordinary experiences.

British Women Writers and the French Revolution
British Women Writers and the French Revolution

Author: A. Craciun

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0230501885

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British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women, and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the European revolutionary crisis.

Letters Written in France
Letters Written in France

Author: Helen Maria Williams

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1770484531

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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.

Political Affairs of the Heart
Political Affairs of the Heart

Author: Linda Van Netten Blimke

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1684484057

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By examining four sentimental travelogues written by British women travelers during the American and French Revolutions, Political Affairs of the Heart argues that this genre, by combining eyewitness authority with the language of sensibility, constitutes a significant site of women's engagement in national and gender politics.