Anna Williams

-
AW 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.
  • BirthName: Anna Williams

Milestones

1706

AW was born at Rosemarket in Pembrokeshire, five miles west of Haverfordwest in Wales.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
1

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.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
11-12, 16-17, 121

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.
qtd. in
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1139-42
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
53

6 September 1783

AW died at 8 Bolt Court near Fleet Street in London of mere inanition,
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
4: 198
in the lodgings of Samuel Johnson . She had been suffering inappetence,
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
4: 187
eating very little, for some time.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
98-9

Biography

Birth and Background

1706

AW was born at Rosemarket in Pembrokeshire, five miles west of Haverfordwest in Wales.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books, 1985.
1