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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Helen Maria Williams
Born: June 17, 1762
Died: December 15, 1827 (aged 65)
Bio: Helen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works.
Known for:
- Letters Written in France (1790)
- Helen Williams and the French Revolution
- Peru and Peruvian Tales
- Poems 1786
- Poems, moral, elegant and pathetic (1796)