MADAM,
I am too sensible of the distinguished honour conferred
upon me, in your Majesty’s gracious protection
of these Poems, to abuse it by adopting the common
strain of dedication.
That praise...
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Helen Maria Williams contributed to reform writing as the most important eyewitness commentator on the French Revolution for British readers. In a series of books published during the 1790s, the Napol...
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Poems (1786), Volume I.
Helen Maria Williams