# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anna-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:23:08.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anna-williams"
name: "Anna Williams"
slug: "anna-williams"
description: "Anna Williams was a Welsh poet. She was a close companion of the writer Samuel Johnson, who said he was \"very desolate\" when she died. Cataracts left Williams blind or visually impaired in the 1740s, when Johnson took her under his wing and helped to support her. She joined his household until her death, apart from an interval of six years. In return, Williams supervised Johnson's household management and expenses. Besides poetry, she wrote an unfinished dictionary of philosophical terms and translated and published a French biography of the emperor Julian."
tagline: "Welsh poet and companion of Samuel Johnson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anna_Williams_by_Frances_Reynolds.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1706"
deathDate: "1783-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.06
  momentum:             5.769230769230769
  historical:           4.804644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "آنا وليامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Williams"
    title: "Anna Williams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Williams_(poet)"
    title: "Anna Williams (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Williams_(po%C3%A9tesse)"
    title: "Anna Williams (poétesse)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Williams_(poetessa)"
    title: "Anna Williams (poetessa)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q772966"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump