William Godwin

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Standard Name: Godwin, William

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Virginia Woolf
VW 's presentation of Wollstonecraft's struggles and experiments, the high-handed and quick-blooded manner in which she cut her way to the quick of life,
Woolf, Virginia, and Michèle Barrett. Women and Writing. Women’s Press.
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is warm, admiring, and touched with amused irony. She sees...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Fletcher
EF 's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Amelia Opie
Aiming at a reasoned critique, through Adeline and Glenmurray, of Wollstonecraft 's principles, and specifically her relationship with Godwin , AO seems to give higher priority to the intensification of her heroine's virtue, self-sacrifice, and...
Textual Production Mary Wollstonecraft
The bereaved Godwin performed an act of both love and homage in his edition of MW 's Posthumous Works, January 1798. Here appeared the first printing of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria...
Textual Production Mary Lamb
In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
Pickering and Chatto have included MS in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook with Patricia Clemit and others, 1996, includes her travel writing...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS drafted her second, short novel, Mathilda, about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which has often been traced to her own relations with her father .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
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Textual Production Charlotte Smith
CS wrote the Prologue for William Godwin 's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800.
Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS wrote a brief account of her still-living father to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
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Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 285-95.
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Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
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Textual Production Mary Shelley
In the month of his death, MS was almost ready to publish her father 's posthumous memoirs, with his letters, and her editing and explanatory notes.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
303
Textual Production Annie Tinsley
AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.
The title of Women as They...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS promised that she would soon be publishing her father 's posthumous memoirs, completed and edited by herself.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
303, 319n1
Textual Production Mrs Martin
The Minerva Press issued the first novel by the talented but untraced MM : Deloraine. A Domestic Tale, by a Lady, in two volumes; the preface is signed with her pseudonym, Helen of Herefordshire
Textual Production Helen Waddell
HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...
Textual Production Eliza Fenwick
As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs...

Timeline

4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...

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4 April 1788

At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.

7 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft, radical or Jacobin novelist...

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7 February 1792

Thomas Holcroft , radical or Jacobin novelist and dramatist of working-class origins (father of another future writer, Fanny Holcroft ) published his novel Anna St Ives.

14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...

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14 June 1792

The title of radical novelist Robert Bage 's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin and others.

February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...

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February 1793

William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley .

8 May 1794: Godwin finished revising his postscript to...

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8 May 1794

Godwin finished revising his postscript to Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (published later that year), altering the emphasis given when he first finished the novel on 30 April 1794.

By July 1794: William Godwin published his best-known novel,...

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By July 1794

William Godwin published his best-known novel, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams.

September 1794: Indictments against Thomas Hardy, John Horne...

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September 1794

Indictments against Thomas Hardy , John Horne Tooke , and John Thelwall argued that proposals radically to limit the power of the king should rank as treason.

6 October 1794: A London grand jury found twelve accused...

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6 October 1794

A London grand jury found twelve accused radicals guilty of high treason. Lord Chief Justice Eyre had delivered them the charge.

1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...

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1798

Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.

2 July 1798: The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or...

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2 July 1798

The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.

13 December 1800: William Godwin's five-act verse tragedy Antonio...

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13 December 1800

William Godwin 's five-act versetragedyAntonio was performed for the first and last time at Drury Lane . It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.

By 25 October 1820: William Godwin published his Answer to Malthus,...

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By 25 October 1820

William Godwin published his Answer to Malthus, arguing that human beings were not increasing to the point of being unable to feed themselves.

November 2010: The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin...

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November 2010

The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin (strictly a record of events, with little or no comment) became available to scholars on line, meticulously edited by Mark Philp and his collaborators.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.

Texts

Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Sherburn, George, and William Godwin. “Introduction”. Caleb Williams, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1960, p. vii - xx.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Posthumous Works. Editor Godwin, William, Joseph Johnson, 1798.
Smith, Charlotte, and William Godwin. “Prologue”. Antonio, 1stst ed, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria. A Fragment”. Posthumous Works, edited by William Godwin, Joseph Johnson, 1798, p. Vols. I - II.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.