This new volume in the series 'Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print' illuminates the significant extent to which British women writers cultivated a radicalized cosmopolitanism through their engagement with French revolutionary politics. British women were drawn to France for both its ancien régimeassociations as "the paradise of lady wits" (to quote Fanny Burney), and its revolutionary politics that extended across gender and national lines. Most visible in the 1790s writings of Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Helen Maria Williams, yet persisting through the rise and fall of Napoleon in the works of Francophiles like Anne Plumptre and Lady Morgan, revolutionary cosmopolitanism flourished in women's writings of the Romantic era.

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Nationalism and Internationalism
Female Philosophers: Women and the "Word War" of the 1790s
Mary Robinson and Radical Politics: The French Connection
Virtue and Terror: Robespierre, Williams, and the Corruption of Revolutionary Ideals
Citizens of the World: The Émigrés in the British Imagination
Epilogue: Napoleonic Challenges and Cosmopolitan Legacies
Appendix I: January 1794 Timeline
Appendix II: Tabitha Bramble to Robert Dundas, 23 January 1794
Works Cited
Index

ADRIANA CRACIUN is the author of Fatal Women of Romanticism (2003) and the co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (2001). She has published widely on women's writings in the Romantic period, and teaches British literature and critical theory at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.