Deborah Kennedy
Standard Name: Kennedy, Deborah
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Birth | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
was born in London, the elder of two sisters (she also had an elder half-sister). She was baptised on 5 July at St James's, Piccadilly. Her French naturalization papers give her date of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Maria Williams | HMW
. it seems, had a life partner: English businessman and fellow radical John Hurford Stone
, whom she met when she first visited Paris. He was married, but his wife had taken lovers... |
Literary responses | Helen Maria Williams | The Critical Review began its notice with a brief sketch of HMW
's life-story, emphasising the circumstances which had kept her in ignorance of the literary scene which she was now entering. It made some... |
Reception | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Since the re-awakening of interest in women's writing in the late twentieth century, ESR
has received less attention than she deserves, perhaps because of a tendency to pigeon-hole her as a religious writer, but... |
Textual Features | Helen Maria Williams | This is either the beginning or (as her numbering of later volumes suggests) a prelude to HMW
's Letters from France: an extended series of reports on and analyses of the Revolution, its development... |
Textual Production | Anne Finch | One passage from a long Pindaric ode entitled All is Vanity (present in Finch's early octavo ms and in her printed collection) has broken loose and achieved a life of its own. Whereas the entire... |
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