John Fenwick

William Godwin recorded in his diary the death of John Fenwick , estranged husband of EF (who was then living at New Haven, Connecticut).

The date of EF 's marriage to John Fenwick is not known, though it seems that she was young at the time, still in her teens. He was nine years older, like her the child...

With the dawn of the nineteenth century, Charles Lamb embarked on a career in journalism. This began very shakily with producing knee-jerk anti-government ideology for John Fenwick (husband of the novelist Eliza), but became flourishing...

EF 's husband, John Fenwick , visited Paris with secret overtures from English radicals to the National Convention .

EF 's husband John Fenwick published On the Trial of James Coigley for High Treason, a fierce critique of the execution of Irish radical James Coigly .

EF wrote to Mary Hays that she had determined, if possible, to consider myself & children totally separated from [John Fenwick 's] good or bad fortunes.

TH knew most of the English radicals of the day. For years before this he had been a particularly close friend of William Godwin , who regarded him as a mentor. The two men saw...

ML 's friends (many of them made through Charles) included Eliza Fenwick (whose husband and Charles drank together), Henry Crabb Robinson , and many more canonical members of the Romantic movement. Charles was close to...

EF 's husband , many times threatened with arrest for debt, went bankrupt and was confined in the Fleet Prison .