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's younger sister, Cecilia Coquerel
, died: Williams never recovered from this blow. She became guardian to her two nephews, then aged three and one.
Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
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Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction and Chronology”. Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan Sniader Lanser, Broadview, 2001, pp. 9-52.
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Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.
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Family and Intimate relationships
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called her sister, Cecilia (baptised fifteen months after her and later, by marriage, Cecilia Coquerel
),
Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Orlando about Mary Bryan, Helen Maria Williams. 8 Mar. 2010.
the beloved friend of my life.
Williams, Helen Maria. Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1801, 2 vols.
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Cecilia married, in 1794, a Frenchman, nephew of Monsieur
. and...
politics
Helen Maria Williams
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, because of her English citizenship and her pro-Girondin, anti-Jacobin stance in the French Revolution, was arrested and sent to the Luxembourg in Paris (at this time a prison), along with her mother and sister
.
Williams, Helen Maria. “Introduction and Chronology”. Letters Written in France, in the Summer 1790, edited by Neil Fraistat and Susan Sniader Lanser, Broadview, 2001, pp. 9-52.
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Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
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politics
Helen Maria Williams
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was already politically aware before she first travelled to Paris in 1790. She was a supporter of the London Revolution Society
(founded to remember the importance of the Glorious Revolution in England, but ready...
Residence
Helen Maria Williams
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returned to France (again following closely on her sister
and mother), and this time settled in Paris in September, after a visit to Rouen and Orléans.
Woodward, Lionel D. Hélène-Maria Williams et ses amis. Slatkine Reprints, 1977.
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Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
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Kennedy, Deborah. Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press, 2002.