British Writers and Paris 1830–1875

Jay, Elisabeth

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“…Elisabeth Jay has noted that Mohl's salon in particular 'played a leading part in introducing English writers to Parisian cultural life'. 51 These writers included the likes of Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Browning, the latter of whom met Chapman at Madame Mohl's in 1851. 52 Browning described Chapman as 'the female mover of the American abolitionist movement'.…”

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Maria Weston Chapman, French Salons, and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Rivington

2023

Hist. J.

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This article examines the idea of anti-slavery sociability as part of a wider analysis of the informal elements of the transatlantic anti-slavery movement. It considers how American abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman drew support for the American anti-slavery cause from French salons during her time spent living in Paris from 1848 to 1855. This case-study highlights how a focus on the informal dimensions of anti-slavery activism illuminates the often underappreciated work of female abolitionists in the transatlantic reform sphere. Through the connections she established with the likes of French writer Victor Hugo and Russian exile Nicholas Tourgueneff at salons in Paris, most notably that of Mary Clarke Mohl on the Rue de Bac, Chapman was able to cultivate European support for abolitionism in myriad ways. This included financial donations, goods to be sold at anti-slavery bazaars, and, perhaps most importantly, testimonies against American slavery from renowned Europeans like Hugo that could be republished in the United States.

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confidence: 99%