ABSTRACT

This volume sheds light on contemporary perception of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, a biographically and intellectually compelling literary family of the Romantic period. The writings reveal the personalities of the subjects, and the motives and agendas of the biographers.

chapter

Introduction

part 1|6 pages

Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 2|8 pages

Memoirs of Emma Courtney

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |6 pages

Hays: Memoirs of Emma Courtney

part 3|14 pages

‘Mr Godwin’, in Public Characters of 1799-1800

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |12 pages

Fenwick: Mr Godwin

part 4|6 pages

Letters from London

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |4 pages

Letter XXVIII.

part 5|4 pages

Memoirs of George Fred. Cooke, Esq.

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 6|4 pages

‘On the English Novelists’, in Lectures on the English Comic Writers

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 7|22 pages

‘William Godwin’, The Spirit of the Age

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |20 pages

William Godwin.

part 8|6 pages

Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A.

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part 9|6 pages

Illustrations of Phrenology

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 10|2 pages

‘The Old Actors’

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

Lamb: The Old Actors

part 11|14 pages

‘Memoirs of William Godwin’

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 12|21 pages

‘Life of William Godwin’

part 13|4 pages

‘Gallery of Literary Characters, No. LIII: William Godwin, Esq.’

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

No. L111. William Godwin, Fsq.

part 14|5 pages

The Trial of Joseph Gerrald

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 15|3 pages

‘Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater’

part 16|3 pages

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 17|4 pages

‘A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance’

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

Smith: A Graybeard’s Gossip

part 18|13 pages

Final Memorials of Charles Lamb

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 19|3 pages

The History of England

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 20|6 pages

Autobiography

chapter |1 pages

Overview

chapter |4 pages

Martineau: Autobiography

part 21|3 pages

Recollections of the Life of John Binns

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 22|7 pages

Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie

part 23|14 pages

The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 24|2 pages

Shelley Memorials

part 25|4 pages

Yesterday and To-day

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

Redding: Yesterday and To-day

part 26|10 pages

Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence

part 27|3 pages

Correspondence of William Ellery Channing, D.D. and Lucy Aikin

part 28|3 pages

Threading My Way

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

Owen: Threading My Way

part 29|27 pages

William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |18 pages

Kegan Paul: William Godwin

part 30|3 pages

Life, Letters, and Journals

chapter |1 pages

Overview

part 31|6 pages

Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author

part 32|3 pages

Thomas Carlyle

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |1 pages

Froude: Thomas Carlyle

part 33|3 pages

Memoirs of Dr Robert Blakey

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 34|6 pages

The Life of Francis Place

chapter |2 pages

Overview

part 35|4 pages

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |2 pages

Burr: Private Journal

part 36|6 pages

Reminiscences of a Literary Life

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |4 pages

William Godwin

part 37|9 pages

'Journal'

chapter |2 pages

Overview

chapter |7 pages

Gisborne: Journals