William Godwin

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Standard Name: Godwin, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
MS 's father, radical writer and philosopher William Godwin , remarried in 1801.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
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Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
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Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
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His position as a thinker, renowned in radical circles, meant that his children grew up in...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
On his death on 7 April 1836, Godwin left MS all his papers.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
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Out of delicacy she let Claire Clairmont's mother, Mary Jane Godwin, go through them first and select any that she wanted.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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Family and Intimate relationships Amelia Opie
Both Holcroft (who, four times married and widowed, was now fresh from being arrested for treason and discharged) and Godwin (while not yet a lover of Wollstonecraft) took a romantic or flirtatious as well as...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Wollstonecraft
MW made a move in her re-entry to London intellectual life by calling on her old friend William Godwin .
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Wollstonecraft
MW and William Godwin became lovers.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Wollstonecraft
MW and William Godwin , against their principles but for the sake of the coming baby, were married at St Pancras Church, London.
Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
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Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Dacre
Their topics were his bankruptcy some years before (which had brought the loss of his house and book collection, and a prison term) and his recent trial. He had been charged by two prostitutes with...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) bore a son, whom she named William after her father .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
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Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Lee
HL turned down a marriage proposal from William Godwin , recent widower of Mary Wollstonecraft .
Lee, Sophia. “Introduction”. The Recess, edited by April Alliston, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - lii.
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Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
William Godwin recorded in his diary the death of John Fenwick , estranged husband of EF (who was then living at New Haven, Connecticut).
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
The date of EF 's marriage to John Fenwick is not known, though it seems that she was young at the time, still in her teens. He was nine years older, like her the child...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
He took with him a presentation copy of Godwin 's newly-published Political Justice.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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The next year he published part one of a translation from French: Memoirs of General Dumourier, a military leader...
Family and Intimate relationships Eliza Fenwick
Coigly had been executed, on the flimsiest evidence, on 7 June. John Fenwick's book is Observations On the Trial of James Coigly, For High Treason: Together with an Account of his Death.
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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He...
Employer Eliza Fenwick
EF , still writing and publishing little books for children, also ran the Juvenile Library (a bookshop) for William and Mary Jane Godwin .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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