Marie Jeanne Phlipon Roland de la Platière

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 It included four previously unpublished essays, two of them on the...

The same year as MB 's editions of Byron , her biography Madame Roland appeared: it was her second contribution to the Eminent Women Series.

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...

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 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 .