author

Charlotte Biggs

d. 1827

A sharp-eyed witness to the French Revolution, she turned years of danger and upheaval into a vivid political narrative. Her life seems to have included far more adventure than most memoirists could invent.

5 Audiobooks

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part IV., 1795 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

by Charlotte Biggs

About the author

Rachel Charlotte Biggs was an English writer remembered for A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794, and 1795, a work drawn from her time in revolutionary France. Catalog and reference sources also identify her as Charlotte Biggs and date her death to 1827.

Modern reference entries describe her as more than a travel writer: someone whose letters and experiences placed her close to the political tensions of her age. Her surviving reputation rests on that firsthand account of France, which gives readers a personal view of fear, uncertainty, and daily life during the Revolution.

She remains an intriguing, somewhat elusive figure from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For readers of memoir, travel writing, and women’s voices from the Revolutionary era, her work offers both eyewitness history and a remarkable life story.