William Godwin

He took with him a presentation copy of Godwin 's newly-published Political Justice. The next year he published part one of a translation from French: Memoirs of General Dumourier, a military leader...

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. He...

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

They were highly sociable on their travels. As former supporters of the cause of American independence they met with Thomas Jefferson . After their return to England they continued to enlarge their circle. In July...

EF fully shared in her husband's friendship with William Godwin . She exchanged visits with him, sometimes with one or other of her children, from the time she first entertained him in November 1788. He...

Another radical, William Godwin , proposed marriage to EI —unsuccessfully.

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...

In London she met many artists, writers, and politically active reformists: as well as Godwin , she met Elizabeth Inchbald , Mary Wollstonecraft (who impressed her deeply, and trusted her enough to confide her plans...

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.

They included public men like George Canning , John Philpot Curran , and Lord Erskine , and writers and theatre people like John Philip Kemble , George Colman the younger, dramatist and examiner of plays...

Hamilton, herself a conservative, set about de-demonizing EF 's political reputation. She had good success in persuading her friends that Mrs Fletcher was not the ferocious Democrat she had been represented, and that she neither...

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...

A Christian and political radical, STC associated with William Godwin and Robert Southey . William Wordsworth wrote of him on 21 March 1796, I saw but little of him. I wished indeed to have seen...

The Lambs also knew well members of related circles, Robert Southey , William Hazlitt , and Thomas De Quincey . In the first year of her new life Mary met William Godwin , Thomas Manning

ABC and her brother Joshua met Wollstonecraft in about 1788, and Joshua coresponded with her. A few years later Wollstonecraft told Joshua she wished that Ann could obtain a little more strength of mind instead...