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Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland novelist, known for Letters Written in France|Peru, a Poem in Six Cantos.
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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. A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favourably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth.
Letters Written in France|Peru, a Poem in Six Cantos
Letters written in France
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