Helen Maria Williams
British writer
Died when: 68 years 181 days (821 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Helen Maria Williams (17 June 1759 – 15 December 1827) was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works.A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France.
A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favourably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth.
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