About Helen Maria Williams
[Wikidata] English novelist, poet, translator, religious dissenter, abolitionist (1759/62-1827)... | [Wikipedia] Helen Maria Williams 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.
