Tomalin, Claire. The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. Penguin.
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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 |
Friends, Associates | Ann Batten Cristall | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Hays | This was her most formative and most famous friendship. She had approached Wollstonecraft after the latter published Vindication of the Rights of Woman early that same year. Wollstonecraft proved a valuable professional mentor. Another relationship... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Lamb | 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 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Robinson | Robinson found good friends among the male cultural and social leaders with whom she remained free to mix. Her daughter particularly mentions, as well as Sheridan
, Sir Joshua Reynolds
, Edmund Burke
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Smith | Probably after Mary Wollstonecraft's death, CS
became a friend of William Godwin
, Elizabeth Inchbald
, and Eliza Fenwick
. Also a friend was the publisher Joseph Johnson
. Fletcher, Loraine. Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography. Macmillan. 261, 288 |
Friends, Associates | Fanny Holcroft | During FH
's early childhood, William Godwin
's diary records almost daily meetings between himself and Thomas Holcroft, often at the Holcrofts' house. Godwin, William. William Godwin’s Diary. http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/search.html. |
Friends, Associates | Sophia Lee | Their school, together with their literary careers, brought SL
and her sisters a wide circle of friends and contacts, including Jane
and Anna Maria Porter
. The novelist Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins describes Sophia as surrounded... |
Friends, Associates | Thomas Holcroft | TH
knew most of the English radicals of the day. For years before this he had been a particularly close friend of William Godwin
, who regarded him as a mentor. The two men saw... |
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 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Letitia Barbauld | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Eliza Fenwick | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Inchbald | Another radical, William Godwin
, proposed marriage to EI
—unsuccessfully. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America. 94 |
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... |
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