William Godwin

The Critical Review gave the second volume five words: Very good in their way.William Godwin set his difficult stepson Charles Clairmont, aged eleven, to learn ATG 's My Mother...

In September 1847, critic George Gilfillan followed his treatment of the still very popular and critically distinguished Felicia Hemans in his series on Female Authors in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine with a piece on EBB ...

The Quarterly Review was horrified by Frankenstein's tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity, in the spirit of the Godwin school. Its vigour of fancy and language, said the...

Alexander Hamilton in the Monthly Review felt it necessary to warn its readers that these letters were really a novel. It also judged the Indian sections far less well done than the English ones.

The Italian won for AR the accolade of praise from Thomas James Matthias , scholar, editor, and librarian at Buckingham Palace, who invoked the shade of Ariosto to honour her in the same place...

The Critical Review (which thought the first volume of Canterbury Tales resembled the work of Marmontel , but happily without his profligate principles) was enthusiastic: We expect the second volume with impatience, as we have...

The Spectator, in praising Norman's Bridge, said that the only work to touch it was William Godwin 's Caleb Williams.

Charlotte Smith knew of this work-in-progress on 26 July 1800, when she told Mary Hays how she wished she could help EF with money or moral support. On 31 October 1801 Hays noted that Thomas Underwood

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.

Lady Mountcashel as a girl had had Mary Wollstonecraft as her governess; Wollstonecraft too had been dismissed from this post, though she had preserved her friendship with her pupil Margaret, later Lady Mountcashel. FH 's...

Godwin 's hastily-written Memoirs of MW , following his own principle of total frankness about all he knew, irreparably (for the time being) damaged her reputation.

Amelia Alderson (later AO ) attended the treason trials at the Old Bailey of Horne Tooke and Thomas Holcroft (friends of her family) and other would-be reformers; it was here that she got to know...

In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin 's Political Justice) MR became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy , had resisted...

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

In 1823 William Godwin (inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS 's...