be an important interpreter of French intellectual currents for the English-speaking world. Selected works Williams' works consist of poetry, novels, volumes of letters, and translations. The lines are not always clear, as she might include an original poem in the preface of another work, even in a translation of someone else's work. Poetry Edwin and Eltruda. A legendary tale, 1782, her first published work An Ode on the Peace, 1783, celebrated the end of the American Revolution Peru, A Poem. In Six Cantos, 1784, an epic poem that critiques European colonialism Poems, 1786 A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade, 1788 A Farewell, for Two Years, To England, 1791 "Ode to Peace," the Morning Chronicle, 1801 Poems on various Subjects, 1823 "The Bastille, A Vision" Novels Julia, 1790 Non-fiction Letters Written in France, 8 vols, 1790-–1796. A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France, from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte ... Till the Restoration of Louis XVIII ..., 1815. Letters on Events which have passed in France since the Restoration in 1815, 1819 A Tour in Switzerland, 1798. Translations Paul and Virginia by Bernardin de Saint Pierre. The political and confidential correspondence of Lewis XVI with observations on each letter. London and New York, 1803. Williams also translated (from French to English) several works of Alexander von Humboldt, who was German but wrote in French. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New continent during the years 1799–1804, by Alexander de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, etc. Longman, Hurst, Rees, etc., London 1814–1829 Researches concerning the institutions & monuments of the ancient inhabitants of America, with descriptions & views of some of the most striking scenes in the Cordilleras! Longman, Hurst, Rees, etc., London 1814 References Further reading Blakemore, Steven, Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1 June 1997), . Feldman, Paula R. (ed.) Peru and Peruvian Tales. Broadview Press (8 December 2014), . Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). . Woodward, Lionel. Une Anglaise , amie de la révolution française: Hélène Maria Williams et ses amis. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1930. External links Helen Maria Williams at the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive (ECPA) The Literary Encyclopedia: "Williams, Helen Maria" Another useful piece on Williams