Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of ideas between France and England through her intellectual and political circles as well as through her publications. She was a tireless chronicler … of his published poems . 15 His visit reignited memories of her youth in the London circles. Having not returned to England since 1792, she had however cut herself off from some of her compatriots during the tensions between France and … opus’s make-believe friendship as a discursive device ( Letters Written in France in the Summer 1790 to a Friend in England ), she sought to convert her compatriots to what she presented as a quest for liberty and social justice in the …
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