William Godwin

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Standard Name: Godwin, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS promised that she would soon be publishing her father 's posthumous memoirs, completed and edited by herself.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
303, 319n1
Publishing Mary Shelley
MS wrote an enthusiastic and knowledgeable review of her father 's novel Cloudesley (for Blackwood's).
Clemit, Patricia. “Mary Shelley and William Godwin: a literary-political partnership, 1823-1836”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 285-95.
294n17
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
MS 's father, radical writer and philosopher William Godwin , remarried in 1801.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
22, 24, 28
Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters. Routledge.
xv, 6
Sunstein, Emily W. Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality. Little, Brown.
27
His position as a thinker, renowned in radical circles, meant that his children grew up in...
Occupation Mary Shelley
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.
Hill-Miller, Katherine C. ’My Hideous Progeny’: Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship. University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses.
52-4
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
10-11
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
On his death on 7 April 1836, Godwin left MS all his papers.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo, Broadview, pp. 9-45.
45
Out of delicacy she let Claire Clairmont's mother, Mary Jane Godwin, go through them first and select any that she wanted.
Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Multivocality in Mary Shelley’s Unfinished Memoirs of Her Father”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 3, pp. 303-22.
320n12
Dedications Mary Shelley
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.
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
33
She dedicated the printed...
Publishing Mary Shelley
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...
Literary responses Mary Shelley
The Quarterly Review was horrified by Frankenstein's tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity,
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
18 (1818): 382
in the spirit of the Godwin school. Its vigour of fancy and language,
Quarterly Review. J. Murray.
18 (1818): 382
said the...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
MS began to work seriously on this novel in late 1820.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
414
The Chawton Library copy is one presented by the author's father, With Mr. Godwin 's Compliments.
Chawton House Library Catalogue. http://www.chawton.org/library/index.html.
Godwin chose the work's title, as he...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Shelley
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Shelley
The title may have been suggested by Falkland, a key character in Godwin 's Caleb Williams. The novel takes up several points in his Deloraine, 1833. Falkner causes the death of his wife...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (later Shelley) bore a son, whom she named William after her father .
Shelley, Mary. “Introduction”. Frankenstein, edited by David Lorne Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview, pp. 11-43.
41
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Shelley
MS recorded in her diary reading Memoirs which are almost certainly those of her mother written and published by her father .
Shelley, Mary. The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Editors Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, Johns Hopkins University Press.
319
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.
288
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.

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