Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… ‘Don Dismallo running the literary gantlet’, Library of Congress, n° 2004669855, 1790. Image ‘Helen Maria Williams’, London: Dean and Munday, 1816, NYPL, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. Wikimedia Commons, … (1761-1827) showed a sustained appetence for literary and political circles. She frequented many salons in Paris and London before becoming a salonnière herself in both capitals. Born to a Scottish father and Welsh mother and from an upper middle-class background, she arrived in London in 1781. Through her acquaintance with the dissident clergyman Andrew Kippis, who encouraged her literary …
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