Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platière

Most of MS 's subjects are male, but they include Vittoria Colonna , Marie de Sévigné , Manon Roland , and Germaine de Staël .

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...

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...

In Paris HMW frequented Mme Roland 's salon, and she and Stone became close friends of Roland and her husband . Those who visited HMW early in her time in Paris included Mary Wollstonecraft (who...

In Paris MW met several of her radical friends from London, like Tom Paine , as well as Helen Maria Williams and her lover John Hurford Stone . She also met French revolutionaries like Manon Roland

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...