The first appeared in 1843 and the last was published in 1845. Afterward, she lived on the proceeds of her earlier twelve works. Having established a name for herself through her writing, Williams moved in the upper circles of society. She had begun a correspondence with Thomas Wilson Dorr around 1842 and was fully in favor of his suffrage party. Williams was an important supporter willing to use her influence. She raised funds and passed along information to him when Dorr was in exile, after the Dorr Rebellion. Williams saw the work of the Rhode Island Suffrage Association, which had no intention of granting enfranchisement to women, but rather wanted to remove the property requirement for male voters, in much the same light as religious reform. Good must conquer evil and the hypocrites and pharisees must be defeated. In her own words, Williams proclaimed that the two things she was most averse to were "kingcraft and priestcraft". Williams held weekly meetings of suffrage women in her home to discuss politics. When Dorr was finally seized and imprisoned, the suffrage ladies worked for his release, becoming a "powerful and visible" force in early Rhode Island politics. Around 1848, Williams moved to Brooklyn, New York to care for the aging aunt who had raised her. When her aunt died three years later, leaving Williams an inheritance of $10,000, she returned to Rhode Island and built a cottage for herself and her daughter in Johnston. Shortly before her death, tiring of country life, Williams returned to her home in Providence, where she died on October 11, 1872. She left a completed manuscript of a story entitled Bertha, A Tale of St. Domingo, which had not been published. Posthumously, in 2002, Williams was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. References Citations Sources 1787 births 1872 deaths Writers from Providence, Rhode Island American women poets 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American poets Poets from Rhode Island