William Godwin

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...

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...

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.

The Minerva Press issued the first novel by the talented but untraced MM : Deloraine. A Domestic Tale, by a Lady, in two volumes; the preface is signed with her pseudonym, Helen of Herefordshire

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.

EI submitted the manuscript of A Simple Story to William Godwin , seeking further criticism.

MW 's second, unfinished novel, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, was published in Godwin 's edition of her Posthumous Works.

Wives as They Were, and Maids as They Are, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden .

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...

This is another novel ascribed in earlier sources to Alethea Lewis , and available through Chawton Novels On-line at http://www.chawtonhouse.org/?page_id=55488. Two plot-elements, indeed, are parallelled in Lewis's life: the motherless heroine, Caroline, and the long-drawn-out...

AO was an indefatigable letter-writer. Her surviving correspondence at the Huntington Library includes 331 letters (1794-1850). Most are written by her to her cousin Eliza (Alderson) Briggs or her husband; a few are from her...

EF 's arrangement is chronological, with original documents printed as they occur or are relevant. Her recall is excellent, her observations and analysis acute, her character-drawing perceptive, and her style pithy. She freely and candidly...

VW 's presentation of Wollstonecraft's struggles and experiments, the high-handed and quick-blooded manner in which she cut her way to the quick of life, is warm, admiring, and touched with amused irony. She sees...