Godwin's Juvenile Library

Godwin's second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, had a chequered past history. The two children she brought to her marriage were probably born outside wedlock, and perhaps had different fathers. She was a devoted...

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...

EF, still writing and publishing little books for children, also ran the Juvenile Library (a bookshop) for William and Mary Jane Godwin.

WG and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, set up the Juvenile Library (a shop selling children's books and school supplies), and a publishing house to supply stock for it.

William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane, moved their children's bookshop, the Juvenile Library, to a new address, 41 Skinner Street.

The publishing firm and shop called the Juvenile Library, run by William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane, which had traded at 195 The Strand since 1817, was bankrupted by the crash...

Another of EF's children's books, Lessons for Children, first appeared in 1809 and went through a number of editions as well as a French translation published by M. J. Godwin in 1820.

In early 1805 it seems, after Charles Lamb had already produced a children's book for the Godwins' new Juvenile Library, Mary Jane Godwin asked ML (who was not known as an author, though she...

The Godwin family, including young Mary, moved to 41 Skinner Street, Holborn, where they shared the premises with the Juvenile Library, their children's bookshop.

The publisher was again Mary Jane Godwin of the Juvenile Library Seven of the ten stories were by Mary; again the book bore only Charles's name (which has affected its listing in library catalogues). The...