Anna Williams

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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.
Photograph of a painting of Anna Williams by Frances Reynolds. Williams gazes slightly to the right, away from the viewer. She wears a white cap, with little hair visible, a white bodice, and black mantle or cape. Her pale face makes a strong contrast with the painting's dark background. The picture hangs in Williams's long-term home, Dr Johnson's House in Gough Square, London.

Milestones

1706

AW was born at Rosemarket in Pembrokeshire, five miles west of Haverfordwest in Wales.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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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.
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.
Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press.
2: 1139-42
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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, Princeton University Press.
4: 198
in the lodgings of Samuel Johnson . She had been suffering inappetence,
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
4: 187
eating very little, for some time.
Larsen, Lyle. Dr. Johnson’s Household. Archon Books.
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.
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