Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… into French and Dutch in 1791 and then into German in 1798. From that point on, Williams was recognised on the European stage for the significant part she played in the controversy surrounding the French Revolution ( The Revolution … 1817), p. 397. 15 . William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress’, The European Magazine, March 1787. Acting as a bridge between different languages, Williams, who described herself in 1790 as … and, more generally, about her lived experience as a foreigner 22 in a country that was at war with most of the other European powers. She also recounted her exile in Switzerland 23 in 1794. Sometimes forced to publish anonymously (as in …
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