Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre

This blends gender politics with national politics, but emphasises the former. Its heroine, Martha Bradford, dark, tough, witty, and affectionate, enacts accented versions of some of MR 's experiences. Her father prefers her fair, compliant...

The novel takes place in Paris, primarily during the years of the revolution, beginning from 1787, when, as HM sees it, three men, Camille Desmoulins , Maximilien Robespierre , and Georges-Jacques Danton , seized...

The Professional Visits is set in Paris, during the nightmare of Robespierre 's Terror, and opens in July 1794, soon after the fall of the moderate Girondins, and ends dramatically on the execution of...

She was caught, however, and committed to the Recollets in Versailles, where she occupied a large room that until recently had housed several hundred rabbits. She had her jewellery with her, and also her...

Habitués of her salon included Lafayette , Condorcet , Narbonne , Talleyrand , and Thomas Jefferson . In the following months she conspired with others to attempt the escape from revolutionary hands of aristocratic...

As well as MR 's account of her life, designed to mark her out as a romantic heroine and victim (and not immune from exaggeration and unreliability), this publication includes much of her other literary...

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...

She apologises to her readers in a foreword (written at Paris) for presenting the life-story of a liar, thief and forger, and for allowing him, too, to tell it himself. This man, Hector Ratichon, served...

In this drama PG returns to the subject matter of her translation and adaptationThe Danton Affair, made in 1986 from Przybyszewska 's 1930s play of the same title. In PG 's The Snow...

Personal matters mingle with others of public or topical interest, as EM addresses Joseph Priestley on the inter-relation of matter and spirit, Marie Antoinette on her sufferings before her execution, and Dr Thomas Huet on...

Wollstonecraft 's tacit presence here extends beyond the portrait of Elinor. Juliet, it turns out, is fleeing from an intolerable marriage, like the heroine of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. English law condemns...

This is the title on the first two volumes in this second series: it continues and of the Scenes which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris. The next two volumes, of which...

The work had first seen the light as a series of articles in the Nineteenth Century and After, despite the difficulties caused by shortage of paper.HW 's Translator's Note explains that...

HM 's The Woman Who Died of Robespierre was published: a historical study of a woman destroyed by her obsession with writing a novel about Robespierre .

She then turned to English to write a tragedy on the politically daring subject of Robespierre , which remained unpublished.