Helen Maria Williams' led a highly controversial life. She was imprisoned during the French Revolution by Maximilien de Robespierre and later by Napoleon Bonaparte for her writing. This site contains detailed biographical information on Helen Maria Williams as well as hypertext versions of some of her texts and interactive discussion forums. She is often associated with the term sensibility. The meaning of the term for Williams, however, is quite complex.

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• Lines 97-98 "And HELEN, fir'd by Freedom, bade adieu / To all the broken visions of Peru;"

• "An Epistle to Dr. Moore"
  (Annotatable WORP edition)
• "To Sensibility"
  (Annotatable version at WORP; copytext, Michael Gamer)
• "Sonnet: "To Twilight"
  (Annotatable version at WORP; copytext, Michael Gamer)
• "Part of an Irregular Fragment, Found in a Dark Passage of the Tower"
  (Annotatable WORP edition)
• Selections from Poems (1786)
  (UPenn, Michael Gamer)
  • "Sonnet: To Twilight"
  • "A Song"
  • "Part of an Irregular Fragment, Found in a Dark Passage of the Tower"
  • "Sonnet: To Mrs. Siddons"