William Godwin

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Standard Name: Godwin, William

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Reception Mary Hays
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...
Reception Anna Letitia Barbauld
This work was controversial. William Enfield in the Monthly Review praised it and endorsed its opinions.
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Mary Wollstonecraft quoted from Barbauld's Thoughts on the Devotional Taste in her own preface to The Female Reader...
Textual Features Mary Hays
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...
Textual Features Anna Margaretta Larpent
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...
Textual Features Barbara Hofland
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...
Textual Features Lady Louisa Stuart
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...
Textual Features Amelia Opie
Adeline's mother, Mrs Mowbray, is a widowed spoiled child of rich parents.
Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press.
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Having been hailed in her youth as a genius above the usual employments of her sex,
Opie, Amelia. Adeline Mowbray. Editors King, Shelley and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press.
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she has developed into a...
Textual Features Isabella Kelly
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
Textual Features Marjorie Bowen
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...
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...
Textual Production Mary Lamb
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...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
Pickering and Chatto have included MS in The Pickering Masters. Their eight volumes of her Novels and Selected Works, edited by Nora Crook with Patricia Clemit and others, 1996, includes her travel writing...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
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 .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
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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.
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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.
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS wrote a brief account of her still-living father to accompany the Bentley's Standard Novels edition of his Caleb Williams.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
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Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 285-95.
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Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
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