Helen Maria Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helen Maria Williams

English novelist, poet, translator, religious dissenter, abolitionist (1759/62-1827)

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1759

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1827

Profession: writer, poet, translator, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Helen Maria Williams (17 June 1759/62 – 15 December 1827) was a British 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. A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favourably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth, but (especially at the height of the French Revolution) she was portrayed by other writers as irresponsibly politically radical and even as sexually wanton.