Jane Louisa Willyams

Jane Louisa Willyams (20 October 1786 – 28 May 1878) was a British novelist and historian. Her work focused on early Protestantism in Europe.

Jane Louisa Willyams was born on 20 October 1786 at Carnanton House in Cornwall. She was one of eight children of James Willyams.

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

After a four month stay at Chillon Castle, she published the novel Chillon: or, Protestants of the Sixteenth Century. An Historical Tale in 1845.

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. The Reason Rendered: A Few Words Addressed to the Inhabitants of M——, in Cornwall. London, 1845. A Short History Of The Waldensian Church In The Valleys Of Piedmont: From The Earliest Period To The Present Time, 1855 The Tower of the Hawk: Some Passages in the History of the House of Hapsburg. 1 vol. London: Hatchard, 1871.