Helen Maria Williams | |
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| Born | 17 June 1759 London, England |
| Died | 15 December 1827 (aged 68) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, memoirist, reporter |
Helen Maria Williams (17 June 1759 – 15 December 1827[1]) was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror and spent much of the rest of her life in France. A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favourably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth.[2]
- ^ Kennedy, Deborah (2010). "Williams, Helen Maria (1759–1827), writer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29509. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8.
- ^ William Wordsworth, Sonnet on Seeing Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress