William Godwin

This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...

Charles Lamb 's report that MH composed a piece of poetry for the tomb of her former mentor William Godwin was a fantasy, part of a letter written in 1815 which presents events in a...

LLS 's letters to Scott show her to have been a trusted and perceptive critic of his novels, which she often read before publication. On The Heart of Mid-Lothian she sent him a major critique...

MH 's preface explains her intention of examining the power of the passions in action, on the model of Godwin 's Caleb Williams. She also compliments Ann Radcliffe . She defends the worth of...

This later diary, generally written daily at any odd moment, provides indexing of special events which reveals AML 's methodical character. Occasional months are missing here and there. The diarist offers penetrating comment on a...

Her Mary Wollstonecraft is a warm-hearted, passionate woman, deserving of praise for surviving her extraordinarily difficult childhood, and for her commitment to making a decent life for herself amid chaotic circumstances. To Bowen, Wollstonecraft's relationship...

The title-page quotes Johnson 's Rambler. This novel opens with fashionable and effective abruptness: What can I do? These words, spoken in a low tone, and followed by a heart rending sigh, broke on...

Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents. Having been hailed in her youth as a genius above the usual employments of her sex, she has developed into a...

The title positions the novel in a line running from Robert Bage 's Man As He Is, 1792, and William Godwin 's Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are, 1794, to Catherine Gore

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.

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...

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...

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...

CS wrote the Prologue for William Godwin 's unsuccessful tragedy, Antonio, published in 1800.

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...