I'm not much for literature - still less British literature - but I did once come across an interesting biography of Robespierre by the Chartist Bronterre O'Brien, which is probably one of the few positive representations in 19th century Britain.
Also, re: Thomas Paine, I've somehow ended up attending quite a few lectures recently by Paine specialists and according to them, The Rights of Man is Paine's most famous work, but not his most interesting or his most original. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't read it; it was obviously quite influential and is worth reading for that alone, but you might consider adding The Age of Reason or Agrarian Justice to your list.
Let's see... there are also the works I came across while compiling my series on portrayals of Éléonore Duplay in literature (in chronological order and excluding the ones you have already): Yet another Thackeray, a short story from a book of Burlesques published in 1847 called "Phil Fogarty" and which, while it's set during the Empire, does have the peculiarity of having "Robespierre's widow" dance with the Austrian ambassador at a party given by Joséphine (which, it goes without saying, is patently ridiculous, but so much of British literature relating to the Revolution is); Miranda: A Tale of the French Revolution by Charles Augustus Murray (1850); Chapter XI of British Artists from Hogarth to Turner: A Series of Biographical Sketches by Walter Thornbury (1861); The Atelier du Lys, or an Art Student in the Reign of Terror by Margaret Roberts (1877); The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror: January-July 1794, which, though published as the real journal of Raoul Hesdin (a fictional personage), was really by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1895); The Friend of the People: A Tale of the Reign of Terror by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1895); At the Sign of the Guillotine by Harold Spender (1895); if British literature includes British colonies, you might check out Ange Galdemar's novelization of Sardou's "Robespierre" (Galdemar was from Mauritius and the book is in English - still, it's admittedly a bit iffy).
It sounds like you already have quite a bit though - certainly you have more than a few that I've never heard of.
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Date: 2011-05-21 01:25 pm (UTC)Also, re: Thomas Paine, I've somehow ended up attending quite a few lectures recently by Paine specialists and according to them, The Rights of Man is Paine's most famous work, but not his most interesting or his most original. Which doesn't mean you shouldn't read it; it was obviously quite influential and is worth reading for that alone, but you might consider adding The Age of Reason or Agrarian Justice to your list.
Let's see... there are also the works I came across while compiling my series on portrayals of Éléonore Duplay in literature (in chronological order and excluding the ones you have already): Yet another Thackeray, a short story from a book of Burlesques published in 1847 called "Phil Fogarty" and which, while it's set during the Empire, does have the peculiarity of having "Robespierre's widow" dance with the Austrian ambassador at a party given by Joséphine (which, it goes without saying, is patently ridiculous, but so much of British literature relating to the Revolution is);
Miranda: A Tale of the French Revolution by Charles Augustus Murray (1850);
Chapter XI of British Artists from Hogarth to Turner: A Series of Biographical Sketches by Walter Thornbury (1861);
The Atelier du Lys, or an Art Student in the Reign of Terror by Margaret Roberts (1877);
The Journal of a Spy in Paris During the Reign of Terror: January-July 1794, which, though published as the real journal of Raoul Hesdin (a fictional personage), was really by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1895);
The Friend of the People: A Tale of the Reign of Terror by Mary Catherine Rowsell (1895);
At the Sign of the Guillotine by Harold Spender (1895);
if British literature includes British colonies, you might check out Ange Galdemar's novelization of Sardou's "Robespierre" (Galdemar was from Mauritius and the book is in English - still, it's admittedly a bit iffy).
It sounds like you already have quite a bit though - certainly you have more than a few that I've never heard of.