ABSTRACT This article reassesses Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins (1759–1835), a prolific author whose late novels Rosanne (1814) and Heraline (1821) reveal her as more complex than hitherto recognized on social and political issues debated in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Hawkins has gained some attention for her Anti-Jacobin 1793 Letters on the Female Mind, her riposte to Helen Maria Williams’s celebratory descriptions of France in the early days after the Revolution, and perhaps Hawkins’s conservatism there has kept scholars from exploring her novels. Through attention to her language use and situations on which she dwells from 1793 on, this article examines how Hawkins, in her Letters, Rosanne, and Heraline, consistently focuses on French Revolutionary ideology, the nature and role of the sexes, proper familial relations, patriarchal responsibilities, Britain’s social structure, and the role of religion, while increasingly suggesting that what protects individuals’ and communities’ well-being is difficult to predict.

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从愤慨到模棱两可：莱蒂西亚-玛蒂尔达·霍金斯的书信和小说革命

摘要 本文重新评估了 Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins（1759-1835），她是一位多产的作家，她的晚期小说 Rosanne（1814 年）和 Heraline（1821 年）揭示了她在 18 世纪末和 19 世纪初辩论的社会和政治问题上比迄今为止公认的更为复杂世纪。霍金斯因其 1793 年反雅各宾的女性思​​想信件而引起了一些关注，她对海伦玛丽亚威廉姆斯在革命后早期对法国的庆祝描述的反击，也许霍金斯在那里的保守主义使学者们无法探索她的小说。通过关注她从 1793 年起的语言使用和生活情境，本文探讨了霍金斯如何在她的书信、罗珊和赫拉琳中始终关注法国大革命意识形态、性别的性质和角色、适当的家庭关系、