William Godwin

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.

MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817. She dedicated the printed...

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...

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...

MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments. Godwin chose the work's title, as he...

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.

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 .