
A Tour in Switzerland
Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris
Helen Maria Williams(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. October 2013
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366 pages
978-1-108-06544-3 (ISBN)
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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 account 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. In Volume 2, she describes her excursion in the Alps, presenting also observations on Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
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516 gr
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978-1-108-06544-3 (9781108065443)
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Helen Maria Williams
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
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Content
22[a]. Ascent to the glaciers; 23. Source of the Rhone; 24. Coire; 25. Grison mode of negociating; 26. Baths of Pffyffer; 27. Glaris; 28. Lake of Zurich; 29. Return to Lucerne; 30. Tell's chapel; 31. Cabinets of natural history in Switzerland; 32. Autumnal views on the Jura; 33. Excursions round Neufchatel; 34. Vevay; 35. Fribourg; 36. Arrival at Berne; 37. Reclamations of the Pays de Vaud; 38. State of the peasantry and manufactures in the canton of Berne; 39. Trial of the members of the festival; 40. Discontents of the popular party; Appendix.