Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade , 1788) and pacifist, Williams expressed sympathy in her works for the American Revolution ( An American Tale , 1786) and, after learning about the … 24 December 1792, in ed. Ralph M. Wardle, Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), p. 226. The turning point in the Revolution came with the September Massacres in 1792, which set it on an … in France and Switzerland, Selections from the Edgeworth family letters, in ed. Christina Colvin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979), p. 53. 14 . Lady Morgan, France, vol.2 (London: Colburn, 1817), p. 397. 15 . William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet on …
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