Jane Louisa Willyams

[1] With her sister Charlotte Champion Willyams Pascoe she wrote a novel, Coquetry (1818), published thanks to the help of Sir Walter Scott.

After the death of her father in 1828, Willyams became a resident of a Protestant nunnery in Bristol, the Ladies’ Association.

She left the following year, writing about her "disappointment at not finding the society composed of consistent and self-denying Christians.

[1] The same year she published an anti-Catholic tract, The Reason Rendered: A Few Words Addressed to the Inhabitants of M——, in Cornwall.

[3] She published a history of the Waldensians, a heretical sect founded in the 12th century often seen as proto-Protestant, in 1855 and a novel about the Hapsburgs, The Tower of the Hawk, in 1871.