William Godwin

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 .

A preface (in the first volume) quotes the words of Samuel Johnson (with apology for applying them to so trifling a matter as novel-writing) about working at his dictionary amid grief and illness, feeling cut...

MS drafted her second, short novel, Mathilda, about a troubled father-daughter relationship, which has often been traced to her own relations with her father .

MS wrote a brief account of her still-living father to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams.

In the month of his death, MS was almost ready to publish her father 's posthumous memoirs, with his letters, and her editing and explanatory notes.

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

MS wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father 's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's).

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...

MS supported herself and Percy Florence through her writing—novels and journalism—and editing. He, through her earnings, was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University . She also supported her aging father until his death in 1836.

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.

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...

In 1823 William Godwin (inspired by a successful dramatisation of his daughter's novel, playing at the Lyceum Theatre in London as Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein) arranged a second edition for MS 's...

The Quarterly Review was horrified by Frankenstein's tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity, in the spirit of the Godwin school. Its vigour of fancy and language, said the...

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...

She began work on it in probably early 1827, with Godwin 's encouragement. He had done research on the same period five years before, and shared his daughter's view that Richard III was not so...