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Short name	Helen Maria Williams
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First name	Helen Maria
Birth name	Williams
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Alternative name	Hélène Marie Williams , Helena Maria Williams ,
Date of birth	1759
Date of death	1827
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Sex	Female
Place of birth	London
Place of death	Paris
Lived in	England , France
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Related to	Sydney Owenson , Anna Seward , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , Humboldt, Alexander von , Genlis, Stéphanie Félicité de , Marie-Jeanne Philippon Roland , Wollstonecraft, Mary , Thrale, Hester
Bibliography	MENTIONED IN: - Autrey, Carrie C. & Kurtz, Benjamin P. (eds.). Four New Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and Helen M. Williams. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937. - Blakemore, Steven. Crisis in Representation : Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution. Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1997. - Buck, Guide to women's literature, 1992: "Her radical letters from France describing the revolution were published in 1790". - Craciun, Adriana. British Women Writers and the French Revolution. Citizens of the World. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - Craciun, Adriana. Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. - Culley, Amy. British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840. Friendship, Community and Collaboration. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - Duckling, Louise. “From Liberty to Lechery: Performance, Reputation and the “Marvelous History” of Helen Maria Williams”. Women’s Writing, 17, 2010: 74-92. - Preface: Duquette, Natasha. Julia, by Helen Maria Williams. New York: Routledge, 2016. - Favret, Mary A. Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. - preface: Feldman, Paula R (Ed.). Peru and Peruvian Tales, by Helen Maria Williams. Peterborough: Broadview Editions, 2015. - preface: Fraistat, Neil and Lanser, Susan S. (Eds.). Letters Written in France, by Helen Maria Williams. Peterborough: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001. - Franklin, Caroline. “Romantic Patriotism as Feminist Critique of Empire: Helen Maria Williams, Sydney Owenson and Germaine de Staël”. In Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds.), Women, Gender and Enlightenment. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - Gravil, Richard. Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility. Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks, 2010. - Grieder, J. Translations of French sentimental prose fiction, 1975, p. 40. Cf. - Jones, Chris. “Travelling hopefully: Helen Maria Williams and the feminine discourse of sensibility”. In Amanda Gilroy (ed.), Romantic Geographies. Discourses of travel 1775-1844. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 93-108. - Jones, Vivien. “Women Writing Revolution: Narratives of History and Sexuality in Wollstonecraft and Williams”. In Stephen Copley and John Wale (eds.), Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts, 1780-1832. London: Routledge, 1992. - Keane, Angela. Revolutionary Women Writers. Charlotte Smith & Helen Maria Williams. Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2013. - Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing and Revolution 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. - Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell U.P., 2002 - St Clair, William. The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family. London; Faber and Faber, 1989. - Ty, Eleanor, Unsex'd Revolutionaries, Toronto,1993 (rev. art ECF 12 (1999) p.111). - preface: Fruchtmann, Jack Jr. (ed.) "An Eye-Witness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams. Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France." New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. - Woodward, Lionel. Una Adhérente Anglaise de la Révolution Française: Hélène-Maria Williams and Ses Amis [thesis]. Paris: Université de Paris, 1930.
Provisional Notes	Year of birth previously stated as 1762. Lived in Paris from 1791. Became a naturalized French citizen in 1818. - - translator from French: Rousseau, B. de St Pierre (Buck), Alexander von Humboldt, Xavier de Maistre, Louis XVI. Salonnière (Roland, Genlis, Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine came to her salon) forfurtherdiscussion: also lived in: Amsterdam, Paris, Switzerland MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.73: novels containing “fem.”message

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Religion / ideology	Protestant
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Spouse	Duchess of Devonshire, Helen, Hélène Marie TEMP MARRIAGE

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Place(s) of Residence	England , France

Author of	Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions and Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras The Leper of the City of Aosta: A Narrative Memoirs of the Life of Charles Wadstrom Personal narrative of Travels of the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804 Verses Addressed by Helen Maria Williams to Her Two Nephews on Saint Helen's Day Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic, Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century. In a series of Letters The Charter, Lines Addressed by Helen Maria Williams, to her Nephew Athanase Charles Laurent Coquerel, on his Wedding Day Peru, A Poem Poems Paul and Virginia. Translated from the French of Bernardin Saint-Pierre A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte to the Restoration of Louis XVIII The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth A tour in Switzerland; or, A view of the Present State of the Government and Manners of those Cantons: with Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris Julia, a Novel Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, From the Thirty-first of May 1793, till the Twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the Scenes Which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Kippis Auguste and Madelaine; a Real History. Poems on Various Subjects. With Introductory Remarks on the Present State of Science and Literature in France On the late Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France An Ode on the Peace Edwin and Eltruda: A Legendary Tale The History of Perourou; or the Bellows-Mender A Farewell for Two Years to England. A Poem Letters from France: containing Many New Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and the Present State of French Manners Letters from France: Containing a Great Variety of Interesting and Original Information concerning the Most Important Events That Have Lately Occurred in that Country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792 and 1793, and Particular Respecting the Campaign of 1792 A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade *Geschiedenis der Rampspoeden van den Heer Anthony Augustinus Thomas du F. The Unfortunate Young Nobleman Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes Which Passed in Various Departments of France During the Tyranny of Robespierre, and Of the Events Which Took Place in Paris on the 28th of July 1794 Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790, to a Friend in England Letters on the Events Which Have Passed in France since the Restoration in 1815

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Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic
Researches, Concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America, with Descriptions and Views of Some of the Most Striking Scenes in the Cordilleras
The Leper of the City of Aosta: A Narrative
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Wadstrom
Personal narrative of Travels of the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804
Verses Addressed by Helen Maria Williams to Her Two Nephews on Saint Helen's Day
Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic, Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century. In a series of Letters
The Charter, Lines Addressed by Helen Maria Williams, to her Nephew Athanase Charles Laurent Coquerel, on his Wedding Day
Peru, A Poem
Poems
Paul and Virginia. Translated from the French of Bernardin Saint-Pierre
A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte to the Restoration of Louis XVIII
The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis the Sixteenth
A tour in Switzerland; or, A view of the Present State of the Government and Manners of those Cantons: with Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris
Julia, a Novel Interspersed with Some Poetical Pieces
Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, From the Thirty-first of May 1793, till the Twenty-eighth of July 1794, and of the Scenes Which Have Passed in the Prisons of Paris
On the Death of the Rev. Dr. Kippis
Auguste and Madelaine; a Real History.
Poems on Various Subjects. With Introductory Remarks on the Present State of Science and Literature in France
On the late Persecution of the Protestants in the South of France
An Ode on the Peace
Edwin and Eltruda: A Legendary Tale
The History of Perourou; or the Bellows-Mender
A Farewell for Two Years to England. A Poem
Letters from France: containing Many New Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and the Present State of French Manners
Letters from France: Containing a Great Variety of Interesting and Original Information concerning the Most Important Events That Have Lately Occurred in that Country in the years 1790, 1791, 1792 and 1793, and Particular Respecting the Campaign of 1792
A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade
*Geschiedenis der Rampspoeden van den Heer Anthony Augustinus Thomas du F.
The Unfortunate Young Nobleman
Letters Containing a Sketch of the Scenes Which Passed in Various Departments of France During the Tyranny of Robespierre, and Of the Events Which Took Place in Paris on the 28th of July 1794
Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790, to a Friend in England
Letters on the Events Which Have Passed in France since the Restoration in 1815

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