Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platière

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

The widely varied quotations heading the chapters include some in Latin (Virgil , Cicero , Lucretius , Horace ) and some in French (Rousseau , Voltaire , Marmontel , and Manon Roland ). The English writers quoted include Mary Robinson .

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 It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the...

Though CM 's work later became synonymous with radical history, at its first appearance moderate Whigs likeThomas Gray and Horace Walpole thought it the most sensible, unaffected, and best history of England that we...

ML 's name is identified with that of the Quaker village of Ballitore in County Kildare, whose cultural historian she was throughout the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Though this Irish author wrote...

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...

The future JFLW 's early verse inspired many to submit articles to the Nation.Charles Duffy described her writing as a substantial force in Irish politics, the vehement will of a woman of...