OBSERVATIONS ON THE REFLECTIONS OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE, ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE IN A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF STANHOPE
London: C. Dilly, 1790. First Edition. 8vo, pp. [3]-95. Without the half-title. Removed from a bound volume. Little foxed and stained, very good. Lower edge of the title-leaf folded to preserve the MSS annottaion; first and last leaves with minor spots. The title-page has a contemporary MSS annotation: By Cath: Macaulay Graham as I was told at Mr. Dilly's. This was published before Mr. Loft's pamphlet on the same subject on pa 99 of Wm Humble. mention is made of this pamphlet viz that from its style and sentiments, the public judgment has with reason referrd it, to one of the first Writers in our age." Scarce, not seen at auction since 1975. Item #44072
Praised by Johnson and emulated by Mdm. Roland, Graham led an infamous life in London and Paris. A controversial fingure, she was vilified by many but praised by Wollstonecraft as "the woman of the greatest abilities that this country has ever produced" in the Vindication... In 1784, she traveled to the US and visited with Washington for 10 days. Her republican sentiments created the trouble with critics such as Disraeli and Smyth complaining of her character assasination. This seems to be the last of Macaulay's major works, written before the French Revolution disintegrated into the "terror." Macaulay challenges Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, labeling him a madman determined to reverse society's progress in establishing the right of mankind. Her work directly influenced later feminist thinkers, especially Mary Wollstonecraft.
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