The daughter of the Rev. John Applebee; in 1819 she married James Haddy Wilson Williams, rector of Fornham, Suffolk; Emma Isola (Moxon) was governess in their family of five children.

REFERENCES TO Grace Joanna Williams [née Applebee]:

Mary Lamb to Thomas Hood, [Autumn 1828] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Grace Williams, 2 April 1830 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [28 June 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)