HMW
was already politically aware before she first travelled to Paris in 1790. She was a supporter of the London Revolution Society
(founded to remember the importance of the Glorious Revolution in England, but ready...
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Helen Maria Williams
This is either the beginning or (as her numbering of later volumes suggests) a prelude to HMW
's Letters from France: an extended series of reports on and analyses of the Revolution, its development...
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14 July 1790: Richard Price, speaking at a Bastille Day...
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14 July 1790
Richard Price
, speaking at a Bastille Day tavern dinner, praised the French revolutionary authorities for intending to renounce war as an instrument of policy, and looked forward to a United States of the World.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Revised, Penguin, 1992.
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Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.
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4 November 1790: Members of the London Revolution Society...
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4 November 1790
Members of the London Revolution Society
and of the local Jacobin Society
attended a joint festival at Nantes in Brittany, commemorating English and French revolutionary dates (1688 and 1788).
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson, 1979.