About the Author

The Author: Jelka Samsom received an M.A. and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education at the University of Leyden, the Netherlands, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham. She is now working on a study which investigates the links and divergences between late eighteenth-century thought and Romanticism by comparing Isabelle de Charri�re's Caliste, Benjamin Constant's Adolphe and Mme de Sta�l's Corinne. She teaches French at the University of Birmingham.