The appearance of a rival translation (by some Ladies, unidentified, who had turned their polite accomplishments into earning skills as a result of falling into comparative poverty from ease and opulence) pre-empted publication...
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Helen Maria Williams
Her remarkable though unsuccessful financial investment in the works of von Humboldt has been discussed by Nigel Leask
in Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830, edited by Elizabeth Eger
, Charlotte Grant
,...