British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of
a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from
writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria
Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to anti-revolutionary writers like Hannah
More and Jane West. Based on new research in French and British archives
and libraries, the book uncovers little-known writings by British women,
and argues that these writers developed a distinct antinationalism, in
some cases even a feminist cosmopolitanism, in their responses to the
European revolutionary crisis.