...train were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...soldiers who had thus conducted them through this famous triumph, lodged in one of the old palaces of Paris, now converted into a bastile for kings. Is this...

...train were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.32 Mary Shelley knew these passages well. She had available to her models of monsters, specters,...

...royalty from Versailles to Paris 'amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams and frantic dances ... of the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women'.66 In much conservative English writing during the nineteenth century, France appeared to anticipate...

...the women as a motley crew with nothing more in common than their fury and the fact of being female ('all the unutterable abominations of the furies of...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women', 1930:79), Michelet suggests that 'the women' who went to Versailles were compassionate and were not...

...train were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women. In case one did not get the point, Burke further described the scene as "These Theban and Thracian...

...passage from his orgy scene and tried to wake him from his nightmare to show him the daylight picture of " 'the furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women.' Probably you mean the women who gained a livelihood by selling vegetables or fish, who never had any...

...Royal Family and forcing them to leave the palace and return under guard to their capital. These were the 'furies of hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women' whom Edmund Burke stigmatised in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). But the more influential...

...are the market women who marched on Versailles, called in his Reflections on the Revolution in France the "furies of hell ... in the abused shape of the vilest of women."6 The market women resemble the Gothic and specifically feminine specter who rises from the...

...captive royal family. Describing these women, he refers to "shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations of the furies of hell, in the abused shapes of the vilest of women" (RRF 69). 9 According to Tom Furniss, Burke's account of the events...

.... were slowly moved along, amidst the horrid yells, and shrilling screams, and frantic dances, and infamous contumelies, and all the unutterable abominations...hell, in the abused shape of the vilest of women. (84-85) At this point, let us note that, to the extent that there is any gendered figure in this atavistic...