A Tour in Switzerland 2 Volume Set : Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris Mixed media product
by Helen Maria Williams
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe series
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The radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) is best remembered for her eight-volume Letters from France (1790-6), charting the progress of the French Revolution.
Having published poetry and a novel, Julia (1790), she travelled to France, where her salon welcomed the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and leading Girondists.
Forced to flee the country in 1794, she went into exile in Switzerland for six months, travelling with the printer and political reformer John Hurford Stone (1763-1818).
This two-volume travelogue of the journeys she made during her time there, first published in 1798, documents what she sees as the failure of Swiss democracy.
Highlighting the shortcomings of the Swiss government and the suffering of much of Swiss society through exploitation, Williams anticipates revolutionary activity in the cantons.
Volume 1 concentrates primarily on Basel and its canton.
Volume 2 includes coverage of the Alps, Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.
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- Pages:740 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2013
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- ISBN:9781108065955
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:740 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:31/10/2013
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- ISBN:9781108065955
