Revolution and the French disease: Laetitia Matilda Hawkins's 'Letters' to Helen Maria Williams.

From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: June 22, 1996| Author: Blakemore, Steven | Copyright information

The French Revolution had been taken by the English as the pivotal point in the history of gender relations, especially regarding the role of women. The Revolution has been dubbed the French disease, which is also a euphemism for syphilis. For the English, women who supported the French were seen as traitors and infected with an ideological disease. Helen Maria Williams was one such woman. Her series of 'Letters from France' was countered by another writer, Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, who wrote...

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