Anna Williams was an eighteenth-century translator and poet. Best-known among her slender oeuvre is a miscellany or anthology of contemporary poems. Her projected dictionary of scientific terms remained unwritten.
Milestones
September 1750 The
Gentleman's Magazine published proposals, written for AW by
Samuel Johnson, for a miscellany or collection of poems and essays which would include her own work along with some pieces by other people.
1 April 1766 AW's
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse was finally published by subscription through the firm of Thomas Davies, sixteen years after the first printed proposals for it.
6 September 1783 AW died at
8 Bolt Court near Fleet Street in
London of "mere inanition",
in the lodgings of
Samuel Johnson. She had been suffering "inappetence",
eating very little, for some time.
