William Godwin

MS was the only one of the group to rise to Byron 's challenge by completing a ghost story, which she did almost a year later, on 14 May 1817. She dedicated the printed...

EF , still writing and publishing little books for children, also ran the Juvenile Library (a bookshop) for William and Mary Jane Godwin .

CD 's father was born Jacob Rey , a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London. Tom Paine the radical later recalled that as a poor and friendless child in Ailiffe-Street, an obscure part of the...

Their topics were his bankruptcy some years before (which had brought the loss of his house and book collection, and a prison term) and his recent trial. He had been charged by two prostitutes with...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) bore a son, whom she named William after her father .

HL turned down a marriage proposal from William Godwin , recent widower of Mary Wollstonecraft .

William Godwin recorded in his diary the death of John Fenwick , estranged husband of EF (who was then living at New Haven, Connecticut).

The date of EF 's marriage to John Fenwick is not known, though it seems that she was young at the time, still in her teens. He was nine years older, like her the child...

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...

AW 's maternal grandfather, Joseph Hume , was a translator of Dante , and a friend of Charles Lamb , William Hazlitt , and William Godwin .

MS 's father, radical writer and philosopher William Godwin , remarried in 1801. His position as a thinker, renowned in radical circles, meant that his children grew up in...

MW made a move in her re-entry to London intellectual life by calling on her old friend William Godwin .

On his death on 7 April 1836, Godwin left MS all his papers. Out of delicacy she let Claire Clairmont's mother, Mary Jane Godwin, go through them first and select any that she wanted.

Both Holcroft (who, four times married and widowed, was now fresh from being arrested for treason and discharged) and Godwin (while not yet a lover of Wollstonecraft) took a romantic or flirtatious as well as...