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She is known as a conservative and anti- Jacobin writer who advocated expanded education for women. Although her early work was praised by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays , they later came into conflict over revolutionary politics. Her most famous works are ''The Advantages of Education, of the History of Maria Williams'' (1793), ''The Gossip's Story'' (1796), ''Letters to a Young Man'' (1801), and ''Alicia de Lacy: an historical romance'' (1814).