UID:
almahu_9947415507402882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 466 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316144794 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel, Europe
Content:
The writer and translator Anne Plumptre (1760–1818) and her sister Annabella, also a writer, divided their time between Norwich and London, where they moved in radical and dissenting circles. Anne also travelled abroad, publishing this three-volume description of three years' residence in France in 1810. (Her 1817 volume on Ireland is also reissued in this series.) Like many other Britons, Plumptre took the opportunity of the Peace of Amiens to visit post-revolutionary France, and she stayed in the country until hostilities recommenced in 1805. Sympathetic to the revolution, she intended to examine for herself the state of the country and its people, and compare her first-hand impressions (especially of Napoleon) with the generally hostile information about France then currently available in Britain. In Volume 2, Plumptre is based at Marseilles, and describes both the city and its recent history during the Reign of Terror; she then travels to Aix-en-Provence.
Note:
Originally published in London by J. Mawman in 1810.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108081023
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316144794