Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platière
Standard Name: Roland de la Platière, Marie Jeanne Phlipon
Used Form: Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platiere
Used Form: Manon Roland
Used Form: Marie-Jeanne Roland
Used Form: Madame Roland
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Shelley | Most of MS
's subjects are male, but they include Vittoria Colonna
, Marie de Sévigné
, Manon Roland
, and Germaine de Staël
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Maria Williams | In these volumes HMW
plays down her own sufferings from the Revolution, but pays tribute to the victims of the guillotine, particularly women. She typically idealises young female victims, but.she also crediits women with political... |
Textual Production | Alice Meynell | She was unhappy that Sargent
's portrait of her was reproduced as the frontispiece, but was otherwise pleased with the book and its sales. It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the... |
Textual Production | Mathilde Blind | |
Textual Production | Lydia Maria Child | In 1832 appeared The Biographies of Madame de Staël
and Madame Roland and The Biographies of Lady Russell
and Madame Guyon. The following year came Good Wives—which in later editions sometimes appeared as... |
Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | Biographer Claire Tomalin
thinks that MW
worked in spring 1795 at editing Marie-Jeanne Roland
's Memoirs, and that this explains why the second edition of the book which Johnson
published is so far superior... |
Textual Features | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the course of a busy plot Augusta is abducted, but saves herself from a forced marriage (her mother, the instigator of this outrage, affects to think her married in the sight of Heaven) by... |
Textual Features | Lydia Maria Child | LMC
's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been... |
Publishing | Ethel Savi | John Lane
asked her to meet his reader, M. P. (Mary Patricia) Willcocks
(herself the author of some very clever novels), who suggested that ES
should rewrite her manuscript. Savi, Ethel. My Own Story. Hutchinson. 164 M. P. Willcocks was... |
Author summary | Mary Leadbeater | |
politics | Frances Isabella Duberly | Her war experience played havoc with FID
's gender attitudes. Amid disease, death, cruelty, and official complacency, she wrote in a letter that she had become too hard to cry for anyone but her horse:... |
politics | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
had enough warning to burn many of her papers, along with those of Marie-Jeanne Roland
(who was executed on 7 November). Next month the fear of being guillotined was lifted and the Williams women... |
Occupation | Mary Leadbeater | Around the time they were married, the couple entertained an extensive plan for moving to revolutionary France and engaging in educational and political activities (including work for the abolition of slavery) under the auspices of... |
Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Holyoake
, the dedicatee, in his prefatory piece (like W. Stewart Ross
commenting on The Story of Ijain) defends FD
's work not only by assertion (it is a a marvel of thought... |
Literary responses | Lady Rachel Russell | As love-letters, they made a great and immediate impression on their readers. Yet later this year Mary Russell Mitford
wrote of LRR
with dislike. Mitford found her heavy, preachy, and prosy. As a writer, she... |
Timeline
31 May-2 June 1793: Power was seized in France in a coup d'état...
National or international item
31 May-2 June 1793
Power was seized in France in a coup d'état by the faction called La Montagne or the Montagnards (mountaineers, from their seats high up in the assembly).
8 November 1793: Manon Roland, formerly regarded as a leader...
National or international item
8 November 1793
Manon Roland
, formerly regarded as a leader of the Girondins
or moderate revolutionaries (often known as Madame Roland), was guillotined in Paris.
1911: Ida Ashworth Taylor contributed the Life...
Women writers item
1911
Ida Ashworth Taylor
contributed the Life of Madame Roland to her oeuvre of biographies.
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