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Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere : An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland

"[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Poole      Print: Book

Marie Jeanne Roland de la Platiere : An Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Roland

" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

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