Английская Википедия:Catharine R. Williams
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Catharine R. Williams (December 31, 1787 – October 11, 1872) was a Rhode Island writer and poet and a leading figure in the Dorr Rebellion in support of universal suffrage. In 2002, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.
Early life
Catharine Read Arnold was born on December 31, 1787Шаблон:Sfn in Providence, Rhode Island to Alfred Arnold,Шаблон:Sfn a sea captain, and Amey Read.Шаблон:Sfn Her ancestors were prominent members of Rhode Island families, who had distinguished themselves in the American Revolution and in the state government.Шаблон:Sfn Her grandfather on her paternal side was Oliver Arnold, who had served as Rhode Island Attorney General. Arnold's mother died when she was a child and due to her father's voyages, she was raised in the care of two aunts.Шаблон:Sfn When she was twenty-three years old, one of the aunts married and the other died, leaving Arnold to make her own way. While visiting friends, she metШаблон:Sfn Horatio N. Williams, a descendant of Roger Williams. They married in 1824,Шаблон:Sfn in New YorkШаблон:Sfn and settled in the western part of the state. Williams gave birth to a daughter and after two years,Шаблон:Sfn in an unhappy marriage,Шаблон:Sfn left her husband to return to Rhode Island.Шаблон:Sfn
Career
When she first returned to Rhode Island, Williams opened a school, but the rigors of operating it caused her health to decline. Prompted by friends, she published a volume called Original Poems in 1828. After its warm reception,Шаблон:Sfn she began writing again and published a prose story, "Religion at Home" in 1829, followed by a collection of stories called Tales, National and Revolutionary in 1830. Williams completed Aristocracy, a satirical novel, which was published in 1832 and then the History of Fall River the following year. In 1835, she issued a second series of Tales.Шаблон:Sfn Williams then penned the biographies of General William Barton and Captain Stephen Olney in a work called The Biography of Revolutionary Heroes, which was issued in 1839. The following year, she traveled through the British provinces collecting materials for a book, Neutral French: The Exiles of Nova Scotia which was published in 1841.Шаблон:Sfn Williams believed that her work had inspired Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write his epic poem on the Acadians, Evangeline (1847);Шаблон:Sfn though others claim it was Nathaniel Hawthorne who gave Longfellow the idea.Шаблон:Sfn Williams' last works were called the Annals of the Aristocracy of Rhode Island, published in two volumes. The first appeared in 1843 and the last was published in 1845. Afterward, she lived on the proceeds of her earlier twelve works.Шаблон:Sfn
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.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn In her own words, Williams proclaimed that the two things she was most averse to were "kingcraft and priestcraft".Шаблон:Sfn Williams held weekly meetings of suffrage women in her home to discuss politics.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn
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,Шаблон:Sfn where she died on October 11, 1872.Шаблон:Sfn She left a completed manuscript of a story entitled Bertha, A Tale of St. Domingo, which had not been published.Шаблон:Sfn Posthumously, in 2002, Williams was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.Шаблон:Sfn
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