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Biographical note
Siân Reynolds was born and educated in Cardiff, read Modern Languages at St Anne's College, Oxford, and has a doctorate in History from the University of Paris-VII, supervised by Michelle Perrot. She has taught in secondary schools, adult education, the Universities of Sussex and Edinburgh, and was Professor of French at the University of Stirling from 1990-2004. She has published books on both French and Scottish history, and translated works by leading French historians such as Fernand Braudel, as well as detective novels by Fred Vargas. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France, and is currently Chair of the Scottish Working People's History Trust.[a] sympathetic, but also critical and always scholarly biography ... it was the great tragedy of the Terror that former colleagues should round on each other. Not only did those who had frequented the Rolands, from Brissot to Danton and Robespierre, preish in the process, but so too did the fraternal republic. It is the great merit of Reynold's book to demonstrate how both the Rolands shaped and shared this dreadful fate.
Malcolm Crook, History Today
Thoroughly researched and clearly written, Marriage and Revolution is an important contribution to our understanding of the interaction between private lives and public affairs in the revolutionary era. It also offers new insights into the nature of the "Brissotin" movement and the way in which the revolutionary government functioned prior to the establishment of the Committee of Public Safety in mid-1793.
Jeremy Popkin, H-France Review
Reynolds succeeds in correcting a great deal of the mythology surrounding Madame Roland. This significant monograph is a vindication of Roland, a figure who has been has been overshadowed by not only his wife, but also historians focus on parliamentary assemblies rather than ministries.
Leigh Whaley, French History
This is feminist scholarship at its most current and at its very best. ...a brilliant example of situated, materialist biography.
Professor Bill Burgwinkle, King's College, Cambridge
Siân Reynolds is thus to be congratulated for devising a new and revealing perspective on her subject in this scholarly and highly readable work.
Colin Jones, English Historical Review