William Godwin

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...

MS promised that she would soon be publishing her father 's posthumous memoirs, completed and edited by herself.

As Lissa Paul has pointed out, she wrote not long after the appearance in earlier 1794 of the Second Report from the Committee of Secrecy, a progress report on government snooping into private affairs...

EI submitted the manuscript of A Simple Story to William Godwin , seeking further criticism.

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

This too was written long before publication: in 1801, HMB said in a preface dated 1819, with the aim of combating the ideas of Godwin and other Jacobins, and the horrors of the French Revolution...

This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis , and available through Chawton Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out...

AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...

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

MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820. The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments. Godwin chose the work's title, as he...

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...

In fact Mary had written the versions of all the comedies and histories, while Charles did the tragedies only. The suppression of her name was not (as the Feminist Companion suggests) due to an error...

Pickering and Chatto have included MS in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook with Patricia Clemit and others, 1996, includes her travel writing...

EF 's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly...

Aiming at a reasoned critique, through Adeline and Glenmurray, of Wollstonecraft 's principles, and specifically her relationship with Godwin , AO seems to give higher priority to the intensification of her heroine's virtue, self-sacrifice, and...