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Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin
, she met Elizabeth Inchbald
, Mary Wollstonecraft
(who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
met William Godwin
for the first time, but according to their daughter the meeting produced no desire on either side to follow up the acquaintance. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 316 |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fletcher | Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF
's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither... |
Friends, Associates | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | They included public men like George Canning
, John Philpot Curran
, and Lord Erskine
, and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble
, George Colman
the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |
Friends, Associates | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | A Christian and political radical, STC
associated with William Godwin
and Robert Southey
. William Wordsworth
wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey
, William Hazlitt
, and Thomas De Quincey
. In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin
, Thomas Manning |
Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | ABC
and her brother Joshua met Wollstonecraft
in about 1788, and Joshua coresponded with her. A few years later Wollstonecraft told Joshua she wished that Ann could obtain a little more strength of mind instead... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | Probably after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, CS
became a friend of William Godwin
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Eliza Fenwick
. Also a friend was the publisher Joseph Johnson
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 261, 288 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Holcroft | During FH
's early childhood, William Godwin
's diary records almost daily meetings between himself and Thomas Holcroft, often at the Holcrofts' house. Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html. |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL
and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Holcroft | TH
knew most of the English radicals of the day. For years before this he had been a particularly close friend of William Godwin
, who regarded him as a mentor. The two men saw... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | AW
's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume
, was a translator of Dante
, and a friend of Charles Lamb
, William Hazlitt
, and William Godwin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
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