Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… Thrale ’s salon in Streatham Park, where she became friendly with Samuel Johnson, John Moore, Charlotte Smith and Anna Seward. Recognised as a promising poet ( An Ode of the Peace , 1783; Peru , 1784), she soon opened her own salon in … Row (Bloomsbury), where she received a number of intellectuals generally committed to progressive ideas, including Edward Jerningham, John Moore, Frances Burney , Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an … M. Williams from the Société des Amis de la Constitution de Rouen, July 1791. Introduced to Félicité de Genlis 3 by Edward Jerningham, 4 she initially socialised when in France with people connected to the House of Orléans (1790-1791) and …
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