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Helen Maria Williams (1759–1827)

Autore di Letters Written in France

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Comprende il nome: M.H. Williams

Opere di Helen Maria Williams

Letters Written in France (1994) 50 copie
A tour in Switzerland (1798) 4 copie
Poems 1786 (1994) 4 copie
Letters from France (1975) 1 copia

Opere correlate

Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1989) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Collaboratore — 22 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Williams, Helen Maria
Data di nascita
1759-06-17
Data di morte
1827-12-15
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
UK
Luogo di nascita
London, England, UK
Luogo di morte
Paris, France
Luogo di residenza
London, England, UK
Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paris, France
Attività lavorative
novelist
poet
translator
essayist
feminist
Travel Writer (mostra tutto 8)
letter writer
war correspondent
Relazioni
Plumptre, Anne (friend)
Madame Roland (friend)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (friend)
Kippis, Andrew (mentor)
Breve biografia
Helen Maria Williams was born in London, the daughter of a British army officer. She was brought up in Berwick-on-Tweed and moved in 1781 back to London, where she became part of a wide intellectual and political circle. She also became a religious dissenter, an opponent of slavery, and a supporter of the ideals of the French Revolution. She traveled alone to France in the summer of 1790 and settled in Paris in 1792. There she befriended writers, political activists, and philosophers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Madame Roland, and Thomas Paine. She was a first-hand witness to the Revolution as a "war journalist in a petticoat." She was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, but was released and fled to Switzerland. After the fall of Robespierre in 1794, she returned to Paris and spent much of the rest of her life there. She was originally a supporter of Napoleon but later denounced him as a tyrant. She wrote poetry, novels, travel journals, and a voluminous correspondence, and did translations from French to English, including Paul et Virginie by Bernardin de Saint Pierre.

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"First edition of Williams' memoirs of the French Revolution, 'Traduit de l'Anglais', although no English edition was ever to appear in print. 'Her final work, published in the year of her death, looks back to the French Revolution and joins its cataclysmic history to her own. It appeared only in French, translated from the English manuscript by her nephew Charles [Coquerel] as Souvenirs de la Révolution francaise' (Williams, Letters written in France, 2001, edited by Neil Fraistat & Susan Lasner, introduction, p. 28). Indeed Coquerl notes in the preface: 'S'etant jetee de bonne heure, par volonte et par enthousiasme, au milieu des orages de notre revolution, en ayant embrasse les principes avec toute la ferveur du patriotisme d'une femme, elle a ete spectatrice de ce qui s'est passe; elle s'est liee avec les acteurs principaux de ces grands jours. Son salon est toujours reste ouvert...' (p. vi). The work concludes with her "Lines on the Fall of Missolunghi" printed in English and French. 'After the September Massacres of 1792, she allied herself with the Girondists; as a saloniere, she also hosted Mary Wollstonecraft, Francisco de Miranda and Thomas Paine. After the violent downfall of the Gironde and the rise of the Reign of Terror, she and her family were thrown into the Luxembourg prison where she was allowed to continue working on translations of French-language works into English, including what would prove to be a popular translation of Bernardin St Pierre's novel Paul et Virginie, to which she appended her own prison sonnets' (Wikipedia). Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827), novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France. Two other unrelated works are bound in: Comte Mathieu-Augustin Cornet's Souvenirs sénatoriaux, précédés d'un essai sur la formation de la Cour des Pairs, (Paris, Baudouin, 1824) and Gaspard Gourgaud's Discours de Napoléon sur les vérités et les sentiments qu'il importe le plus d'inculquer aux hommes (Paris, Baudouin, 1826). OCLC records six copies, at the BNF, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Nancy, Geneva and the BL." (Pickering & Chatto, cat. 799, lot 96).… (altro)
 
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Llyfryddwr | Jan 4, 2023 |
Charming and informative first person account of the French Revolution, if not particularly subtle in thought or style. The large chunk relating the sentimental tale of a disinherited nobleman is a rollicking good time, though.
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amydross | Jan 31, 2011 |
an eyewitness account of the horrors of the French Revolution, with an emphasis on the oppression of the French people that led to the Revolution.
 
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hjyamamoto | Sep 29, 2007 |

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