Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08. 304
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Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Shelley | 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. Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 6 , No. 3, 1999, pp. 297-08. 304 |
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... |
Occupation | 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, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 13-14 |
Occupation | William 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. Their shop had the... |
Occupation | William Godwin | William Godwin
and his second wife, Mary Jane
, moved their children's bookshop, the Juvenile Library
, to a new address, 41 Skinner Street. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 13-14 and n20 Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995. 148 |
Occupation | William Godwin | 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... |
Publishing | Eliza Fenwick | 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. OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2nd ed., Broadview, 1998, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 15 |
Publishing | Mary Lamb | 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... |
Residence | Mary Shelley | 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. Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research, 1995. 148 |
Textual Production | Mary Lamb | 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... |
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