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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Virginia Woolf | VW
's presentation of Wollstonecraft's struggles and experiments, the high-handed and quick-blooded manner in which she cut her way to the quick of life, |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Wollstonecraft | 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. Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol. 9 , No. 3, pp. 303-22. 316 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
made a move in her re-entry to London intellectual life by calling on her old friend William Godwin
. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 244-5 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
and William Godwin
became lovers. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 257-61 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
and William Godwin
, against their principles but for the sake of the coming baby, were married at St Pancras Church, London. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 266 |
| Other Life Event | Mary Wollstonecraft | Godwin
's hastily-written Memoirs of MW
, following his own principle of total frankness about all he knew, irreparably (for the time being) damaged her reputation. Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 289-90 |
| Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
's second, unfinished novel, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, was published in Godwin
's edition of her Posthumous Works. Kelly, Gary. Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft. Macmillan. 224 Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin. 253 |
| Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Helen Maria Williams | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Webster | AW
's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume
, was a translator of Dante
, and a friend of Charles Lamb
, William Hazlitt
, and William Godwin
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Joseph Hume |
| Textual Production | Helen Waddell | 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... |
| Textual Production | Annie Tinsley | AT
, as the author of Margaret; or, Prejudice at Home, published a novel with a female first-person protagonist, Women as They Are. By One of Them. The title of Women as They... |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | 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 |
| Textual Features | Lady Louisa Stuart | |
| Textual Production | Charlotte Smith | CS
wrote the Prologue for William Godwin
's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 288 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Timeline
4 April 1788: At about the time that he lost his religious...
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4 April 1788
At about the time that he lost his religious faith, William Godwin
began keeping a diary, which he continued almost daily until 26 March 1836, only two weeks before he died.
7 February 1792: Thomas Holcroft, radical or Jacobin novelist...
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7 February 1792
Thomas Holcroft
, radical or Jacobin novelist and dramatist of working-class origins (father of another future writer, Fanny Holcroft
) published his novel Anna St Ives.
14 June 1792: The title of radical novelist Robert Bage's...
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14 June 1792
The title of radical novelist Robert Bage
's anonymous Man As He Is, published this day, suggests the unpalatable truths revealed by reformers or satirists; it influenced later titles chosen by William Godwin
and others.
February 1793: William Godwin published his Enquiry Concerning...
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February 1793
William Godwin
published his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, a radical text which was highly influential, not least for Godwin's future son-in-law Percy Bysshe Shelley
.
8 May 1794: Godwin finished revising his postscript to...
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8 May 1794
Godwin
finished revising his postscript to Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (published later that year), altering the emphasis given when he first finished the novel on 30 April 1794.
By July 1794: William Godwin published his best-known novel,...
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By July 1794
William Godwin
published his best-known novel, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams.
September 1794: Indictments against Thomas Hardy, John Horne...
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September 1794
Indictments against Thomas Hardy
, John Horne Tooke
, and John Thelwall
argued that proposals radically to limit the power of the king should rank as treason.
6 October 1794: A London grand jury found twelve accused...
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6 October 1794
A London grand jury found twelve accused radicals guilty of high treason. Lord Chief Justice Eyre had delivered them the charge.
1798: Thomas Robert Malthus anonymously published...
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1798
Thomas Robert Malthus
anonymously published in LondonAn Essay on the Principle of Population, which later attached his name to the birth control movement.
2 July 1798: The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or...
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2 July 1798
The conservative Lady's Monthly Museum: or polite repository of amusement and instruction published its first number. Sometimes called The Ladies' Monthly Museum . . . it ran until the 1830s.
13 December 1800: William Godwin's five-act verse tragedy Antonio...
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13 December 1800
William Godwin
's five-act versetragedyAntonio was performed for the first and last time at Drury Lane
. It was rejected by the audience, not with hissing but with coughing.
By 25 October 1820: William Godwin published his Answer to Malthus,...
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By 25 October 1820
William Godwin
published his Answer to Malthus, arguing that human beings were not increasing to the point of being unable to feed themselves.
November 2010: The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin...
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November 2010
The voluminous diary kept by William Godwin
(strictly a record of events, with little or no comment) became available to scholars on line, meticulously edited by Mark Philp
and his collaborators.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.
Texts
Godwin, William. Caleb Williams. Editor Hindle, Maurice, Penguin, 1988.
Sherburn, George, and William Godwin. “Introduction”. Caleb Williams, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1960, p. vii - xx.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Posthumous Works. Editor Godwin, William, Joseph Johnson, 1798.
Smith, Charlotte, and William Godwin. “Prologue”. Antonio, 1stst ed, G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800.
Wollstonecraft, Mary. “The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria. A Fragment”. Posthumous Works, edited by William Godwin, Joseph Johnson, 1798, p. Vols. I - II.
Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html.