William Godwin

A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson (with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut...

CS wrote the Prologue for William Godwin 's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800.

She began work on it in probably early 1827, with Godwin 's encouragement. He had done research on the same period five years before, and shared his daughter's view that Richard III was not so...

The title may have been suggested by Falkland, a key character in Godwin 's Caleb Williams. The novel takes up several points in his Deloraine, 1833. Falkner causes the death of his wife...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) bore a son, whom she named William after her father .

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...

MS recorded in her diary reading Memoirs which are almost certainly those of her mother written and published by her father .

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 .

MS wrote a brief account of her still-living father to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams.

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.

MS promised that she would soon be publishing her father 's posthumous memoirs, completed and edited by herself.

MS wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father 's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's).

MS 's father, radical writer and philosopher William Godwin , remarried in 1801. His position as a thinker, renowned in radical circles, meant that his children grew up in...

MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.

On his death on 7 April 1836, Godwin left MS all his papers. Out of delicacy she let Claire Clairmont's mother, Mary Jane Godwin, go through them first and select any that she wanted.