Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… sheds the most delicious flowers which grow on the path of life’ (H.M. Williams, Letters, 1790, 140 ) . This British author, who settled in Paris in 1792, contributed greatly to the circulation of ideas between France and England through … Laetitia Barbauld, Richard Sheridan, John Horne Tooke and Catharine Macaulay, all mobilised against Edmund Burke, the author of an impactful anti-revolutionary pamphlet in 1790 ( Reflections on the Revolution in France ). ‘Don Dismallo … was made to Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams in recognition of their commitment to the French Revolution. 3 . Author of Adèle et Théodore ou Lettres sur l’éducation (1782), which was successful in Great Britain, Mme de Genlis was …
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