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poetictouch: The night is dark, the waters deep,
Yet soft the billows roll;
Alas! at every breeze I weep –
The storm is in my soul.
~ Helen Maria Williams
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ChawtonHouse: Discover the fascinating story of Helen Maria Williams, the English writer who made it her life's work to report on- and advocate for- the unfolding events of the French Revolution during our online talk on 2 February.
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mmeeemfg: Poem of the week: Sonnet on Reading Burns’ To a Mountain Daisy by Helen Maria Williams
ChawtonHouse: Don't miss our upcoming online talk exploring the story of Helen Maria Williams, the English writer who made it her life's work to report on the French Revolution:
binghamctr: We love to scroll the list of newly digitized collections-- definitely need the scoop about Helen Maria Williams beef with "an unnamed woman she wishes to avoid"!
UkNatArchives: Helen Maria Williams (1759 – 1827) was a British novelist, translator and poet who supported abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution.
We have a letter from Helen, where she applies for a passport to enable her return to Paris during the revolutionary period.
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JazzlamHazzlam: First up, Nicola Bowring on ‘The Language of Terror: Helen Maria Williams and the Ghosts of the Revolution’
elias_greig: Helen Maria Williams - wildy popular poet, novelist, and journalist (teenage Wordsworth wrote her a horny sonnet). HMW set out for Revolutionary France, worked as a foreign correspondent all the way through, almost got guillotined; stayed on to criticise Napoleon. GOOD HAIR.
prontobard: Expression,
strong enchantment
charmed with heavenly song
Helen María Williams
1761-1827
socialsciencec2: Helen Maria Williams was a British poet, remaining in France during the revolution. Surprisingly she participated in literary salons at a time when it was frown on for women to be political
q_ueering: "The night is dark, the waters deep,
Yet soft the billows roll;
Alas! at every breeze I weep —
The storm is in my soul."
- A Song, Helen Maria Williams
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How delightful a transition I will find in the picture of social happiness which Switzerland presents! I shall no longer see liberty profaned and violated;- here she smiles upon the hills, and decorates the valleys, and finds, in the uncorrupted simplicity
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Basel Time
Dinner is served when it is noon by the clocks of the city, which, for several centuries past, have kept the vanguard of time, and for some reason, forgotten in the lapse of ages, probably because not worth being remembered,
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During the period of that new species of tyranny which assumed the name of revolutionary government, I was not merely involved in the common danger which threatened every individual in France, but had claims to particular proscription. It was not only
plastic_bio: No riches from his scanty storeMy lover could impartHe gave a boon I valued more—He gave me all his heart !
- Helen Maria Williams
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On Napoleon
"You were a Bonapartist."
I shall answer this accusation, by pleading guilty. Yes, I admired Bonaparte; I admired also the French Revolution. To my then youthful imagination, the day-star of liberty seemed to rise on the vine-covered hills of
GreenwoodSpicer: my flatmates hearing the entire scarlet pimpernel broadway cast recording blasting on repeat from my room while I struggle through helen maria williams’ “letters from france”
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Preface
The following translation of 'Paul and Virginia' was written at Paris, amidst the horrors of Robespierre's tyranny. During that gloomy epocha, it was difficult to find occupations which might cheat the days of calamity of their weary length.
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Memorial found among the papers of the younger M. Custine which includes a portrait of Marat
(La Force Prison, 5th Dec, 1793)
I have just read the evening paper. I find my name in the decree of accusation proposed by Robespierre; in a few moments, perhaps,
culham_mark: I am trying to conjecture what may be imputed to me. I owe it to my son, to my wife, to my friends; and may at least an unsullied reputation be an heritage which no tribunal can take away!
[Helen Maria Williams omits some of M. Custine's speculations to focus on his account as a
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Of those that had a congenial thirst for blood, issuing mandates for its being shed, Joseph le Bon was unsatisfied unless he beheld it flow. At the hour of execution he used to appear at a balcony of the theatre, near which the scaffold was placed, and sip
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The agents of le Bon received intelligence that forbidden words had been uttered by a parrot. The bird was denounced and seized as a criminal of importance. The tidings spread through the city, of the arrest of an audacious counter-revolutionary, who boldly
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Among the mass of victims at this period were sacrificed the fermier général [outsourced tax collectors] of France. These men had never been favourites with the people at any period; their profession was in itself unpopular, though I have never heard that
culham_mark: Helen Maria Williams - Prose Poems
Of the various calamities inflicted on this unhappy country, my imagination, melancholy as it is, could never furnish me with images strong enough to paint the horror, nor can any beneficial effect be produced on the mind by dwelling on evils
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Sonnet to Mrs Bates
Oh, you whose melody the heart obeys,
You who can all its subject passions move,
Whose notes to heav'n the list'ning soul can raise,
Can thrill with pity, or can melt with love.
Happy, whom nature lent this native charm
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Sonnet to Mrs Siddons
Siddons! the muse, for many a joy refined,
For those delicious tears she loves to shed,
Around your brow the wreath of praise would bind -
But can her feeble notes your praise unfold,
Repeat the tones each changing passion gives,
berfrois: "Mysterious cake, whose folds contain
Life’s calendar of bliss and pain"
shanemgreentree: Helen Maria Williams raising still-troubling questions on the dangers of too exclusive a view on economic aspects within broader issues.
dragoncafecity: Today we have this gorgeous poem by Helen Maria Williams to get us in the festive spirit!
invitinghistory: Sonnet to the Strawberry; one of the "prison sonnets" written by Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) while she was imprisoned in the Luxembourg Palace, which was turned into a prison during the French Revolution.
BreviaryStuff: Rachel Rogers, "Friends of the Revolution" now in print.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, La Société des Amis des Droits de l’Homme, Sampson Perry, Robert Merry, and more accounts of revolutionary Paris.
BreviaryStuff: Rachel Rogers, "Friends of the Revolution" now in print.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, La Société des Amis des Droits de l’Homme, Sampson Perry, Robert Merry, and more accounts of revolutionary Paris.
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invitinghistory: 'Sonnet to the Strawberry' written by Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827); she wrote this while imprisoned in France during the revolution. This sonnet is one of her 'prison sonnets' which survived, as some were lost when her papers were examined by officials before being sent out.
Orgetorix: Check out this book: "Letters written in France, in the summer 1790, to a friend in England: containing various anecdotes relative to the French Revolution; and Memoirs of Mons. and Madame Du F" by Helen Maria Williams
Pendolino70: A Tour in Switzerland, Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, Volume 1 von Helen Maria Williams – Bücher bei Google Play
hn_malcolm: It's been a while since I've read what Helen Maria Williams wrote, and so I don't remember if she describes how big the chunk of rubble was, but sometimes I imagine it as this great big stone weighing down the poor governess's neck, & sometimes I see it as just a tiny pebble.
musicrecbot: Take a listen to:
The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin by Helen Maria Williams
NCTyrrell: Lab HOLD Central
Christine Banks - LAB - 1,209
Katie Maria Burgess - CON - 135
Keenan Reece Clough - SDP - 51
Helen Margaret Dietz - LD - 194
Martyn Paul Madeley - GREEN - 498
Bethan Hazel Williams - LIB - 33
accessoriness_: Thoughts while copyediting footnotes. Can you imagine being asked to review a book and then the editor allowing you to go on this bonkers rant about someone who was not the author? (Anti-Jacobin Review 30 April 1798). Stone is Helen Maria Williams btw.
SheilaRomano1: Myrlie Evers-Williams, RBG, Rosa Parks, Patsy Mink, Maya Angelou, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, Maria Tallchief, Sarah Winnemucca
musicrecbot: Take a listen to:
Sonnet to Hope by Helen Maria Williams
IrishAggers: A very London scene with a red double decker bus in the distance & an elegant parade. Sicilian Avenue is just off Southampton Row where my screenplay about Helen Maria Williams begins. I was following in her footsteps when I took this photo, altho, this hadn’t been built yet.
EveryBookBot: A book about British: Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution by Deborah Kennedy (2002)
KelleyCostigan: Poetic Winter Holiday Calendar Day 5 - To Mrs K, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris by Helen Maria Williams
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LoveCarousel: A Song by Helen Maria Williams
Valster11: I've just watched the first in the Simon Schama series on Romanticism and become what my son would call "triggered". No mention of Helen Maria Williams' reporting of the Revolution, back to the bad old days of Romanticism=the works of well-known male poets.
STORI3D_PAST: And then there’s the 1803 3-volume set of Correspondences of Lewis XVI, many of which when his beloved nation was coming apart. Compiled, translated, & published by Helen-Maria Williams, religious dissenter & staunch abolitionist.
ConsortiumRev: When Helen Maria Williams visited Paris during the Revolution, she “requested to visit the Bastille; feeling a much stronger desire to contemplate the ruins of that building than the most perfect edifices of Paris.” 15/n
phipresidents: Carnival Queen in 1993 was Kate Pollard, Lady in Waiting was Louise Quentin. Court Ladies - Maria Buckley and Helen Lewis. Flower Girls - Natalie Davies and Kelly Smith and Page Boy was Simon Williams. 2/6
GKacena: “My lifted eye, without a tear,
The lowering storm shall see;
My steadfast heart shall know no fear;
That heart will rest on Thee.”
Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827)
RichmondLibs: Today's Richmond Read-along is from Helen Maria Williams, British poet, translator and novelist who spent much of her life in France. We are reading "Sonnet to Twilight:"
RageofBaltimore: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Voltaire's Bastards
An Eyewitness Account of the French Revolution by Helen Maria Williams
Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
IrishAggers: While researching a forgotten female (Helen Maria Williams), I came across a poem that I keep re-reading because it is just so beautiful! It's the kind of poem that I think many middle aged women would like their partner to write about them. It's gentle & kind. Read to the end.
gdow12: No. 5: Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) Known for poetry, novels, translations & travel writing/commentary. Murray published her ‘Narrative of Events in France in 1815’. This Alpine drink is in honour of her 1798 Swiss Tour, published as part of the Chawton House Library series.
gdow12: So, 'The Helen Maria Williams':
Crush a sprig of mint lightly and place in a highball glass. Add one tsp Elderflower syrup, several ice cubes, 2 slices of lime. Fill halfway with Prosecco, then add a couple of splashes of sparkling water.
samjordison: Great list of female writers who make Nina Stibbe laugh: Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Maria Semple, Marian Keyes, Katherine Heiney (sp?) Lucy Ellmann, Meera Syal, Candice Carty-Williams, Nora Ephron, Helen Fielding, Daisy Buchanan, Nancy mitford. -
MWPAI: Maria Munson Williams Proctor (1853-1935)
Beautiful Lily, Dwelling by the River, 1890
Watercolor on Paper, 12 ¼ x 9 7/16 in.
Proctor Collection, PC. 735.2
Helen Elizabeth Munson Williams (1824 – 1894)
Portrait of Pamela Brown, 1845
3 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.
Proctor Collection, PC. 792
somequotesbot: "Pale moon ! thy mild benignant light May glad some other's captive sight Where are the years with pleasure gay How bright their course ! How short their stay !" - Helen Maria Williams
globceleste: "the glittering colors of the day are fled / come, melancholy orb ! that dwell'st with night / come, o'er earth thy wandering luster shed / the deepest shadow, and thy softest light " helen maria williams - to the moon
DrAlexisWolf: Delighted to share my new article 'The “Original” Journals of Katherine Wilmot: Women’s Travel Writing in the Salon of Helen Maria Williams' in European Romantic Review, on my discovery of a forgotten Romantic-period manuscript
RRaskolinkov: Thank You for the Christmas Cake by Helen Maria Williams (read by Tom O'...
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yurssp: During her stay in Paris in 1794, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote to her sister Everina ✉️: "Miss [Helen Maria] Williams behaved very civilly to me and I shall visit her frequently, because I rather like her, and I meet french company at her house. Her manners are affected, yet the 1/2
BlissBennet: Birthday cheers for novelist, poet, translator, and political radical Helen Maria Williams, born on this day in 1759!
RomanticismEHU: 1793: The radical writers Manon Roland, Olympe de Gouges, & Helen Maria Williams (among many others) are arrested & imprisoned during the Reign of Terror. All 3 continue to write in prison-Roland & de Goiges are executed-HMW is released, continuing to defend ideals of Revolution
Books400: Two poems by Helen Maria Williams
MJHerbert: Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827), poet, novelist and translator who went to Paris during the French Revolution and...
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