Jump, Harriet Devine. “Monstrous Stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 297-08. 304
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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, pp. 297-08. 304 |
Textual Production | Mary Shelley | On Godwin's death the publisher Henry Colburn
commissioned a memoir of him to be written by Mary Jane Godwin
with MS
's collaboration. They were still working on this project three or even four years... |
Friends, Associates | Caroline Norton | CN
found solace and political support in other friendships. Lawyer Abraham Hayward
and MP Thomas Noon Talfourd
became her allies in her attempts to change the law on custody of children, and gossip soon alleged... |
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... |
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... |
Publishing | Mary Lamb | Mary Jane Godwin
(whom Charles
and Mary Lamb
disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear
: Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though... |
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... |
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, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 13-14 and n20 Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 154. Gale Research. 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft
became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution... |
Family and Intimate relationships | William Godwin | Having married Mary Jane Clairmont
in 1801, Godwin acquired two stepchildren to add to Wollstonecraft's two daughters. Mary Jane was a skilled translator who had worked for Benjamin Tabart
in the children's-book trade. She and... |
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. 13-14 |
Textual Production | Eliza Fenwick | EF
published through M. J. Godwin
her interactive grammar book: Rays from the Rainbow, Being an Easy Method for Perfecting Children in the First Principles of Grammar . . . . Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361. 15 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Eliza Fenwick | Charlotte Smith
knew of this work-in-progress on 26 July 1800, when she told Mary Hays
how she wished she could help EF
with money or moral support. On 31 October 1801 Hays noted that Thomas Underwood |
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