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Marie-Jeanne Roland (1754-1793) was a French writer and political figure, who presided over a salon and was influential in her husband's career during the early years of the French Revolution until sh...
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In this excerpt, taken from her unfinished study of Roland, Blashfield offers a depiction of Roland's salon. Blashfield's high praise and admiration typifies many early biographies of Ro...
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In this essay, May describes Roland's relationship to the major figures of the French Revolution, including Buzot and Robespierre.
Before plunging into politics, Manon had to fulfill a few priv...
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In this essay, Gelfand uses the work of Michel Foucault on the eighteenth-century rethinking of the prison system to show how Roland's relationship to her audience, in addition to her observati...
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In this essay, May considers how women authors such as Roland could be inspired by the ideas of Rousseau despite his consistent depiction of women as inferior to men.
As most of us have come to realiz...
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In this essay, Outram connects Roland's presentation of herself as an “embodied” woman with her political writings and activism.
Fût-on un Caton, on doit craindre les Circ&...
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In this essay, Szymanek looks at the conflicting accounts of appropriate feminine behavior Roland presents in her memoirs and letters.
Quoi! ce héros fut donc vraiment une femme?”
(What...
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In this essay, Goff evaluates Roland's use of references to classical texts in her memoirs.
In her book Feminism without Illusions, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese writes some provocative paragraphs on ...
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In this essay, Macarthur explores the relations between republicanism and liberalism in Revolutionary France, using the life and work of Roland as an example.
… that she asked for paper, a pen ...
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In this essay, Didier examines how Roland's memoirs constitute both self-representation and a form of self-formation, particularly in the face of threats to her self—both her physical pe...
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In this essay, Walker argues that Roland depicts herself in the character of a virtuous young woman familiar to readers of such eighteenth-century novels as Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Jea...
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Roland, Madame
Critical Essay by Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield
