Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… an upper middle-class background, she arrived in London in 1781. Through her acquaintance with the dissident clergyman Andrew Kippis, who encouraged her literary activity, she met Richard Price and Joseph Priestley, who were also members of … a number of intellectuals generally committed to progressive ideas, including Edward Jerningham, John Moore, Fanny Burney, Charlotte Smith, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and William Godwin. As an abolitionist ( A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed … (Oxford: Clarendon, 1951), p. 894. 10 . Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, Letters on the Female Mind, Its Powers and Pursuits. Adressed to Miss H. M. Williams, with Particular Reference to Her Letters from France. 2 vols. (London: Hookham and …
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