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.

LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...

Sydney Owenson formed a lasting friendship with the poet Mary Tighe . In connection with the publishing of her second novel, she met the London publisher Richard Phillips and others in his circle, including William Godwin

AT , as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them.

HW provided (anonymously) the introduction to a Constable reprint of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke , Daughter of Colley Cibber, one in a series they were issuing of rediscovered works...

AW 's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume , was a translator of Dante , and a friend of Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and William Godwin .

That year HMW was introduced by Dr John Moore to Burns , with whom she then corresponded. She met Samuel Rogers (in November 1787), Hester Lynch Piozzi , and Sir Joshua Reynolds . The year...

MW and William Godwin became lovers.

MW and William Godwin , against their principles but for the sake of the coming baby, were married at St Pancras Church, London.

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.

MW 's second, unfinished novel, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, was published in Godwin 's edition of her Posthumous Works.

The bereaved Godwin performed an act of both love and homage in his edition of MW 's Posthumous Works, January 1798. Here appeared the first printing of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria...

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.

MW made a move in her re-entry to London intellectual life by calling on her old friend William Godwin .