Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… French men of letters (Sébastien Chamfort, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the Chénier brothers), a number of English-speaking radicals (Thomas Paine, Charles Fox, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Wolf Tone, John Hurford Stone, William Christie) and … caused a rift between her and her friends Hester Thrale 9 and Anna Seward. In a virulent book , 10 Laetitia Matilda Hawkins explicitly attacked Williams, calling her a ‘fishwife’ (Hawkins 1, 98) . At the height of The Terror, Williams, who was well known for her Girondist sympathies and her public …
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