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.

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Introduction

Edited ByHarriet Jump

part 1|3 pages

‘Obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft’, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. 68 pt. 2 (October 1797)

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Overview

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Anon: Obituary of Wollstonecraft

part 2|3 pages

‘Obituary of Wollstonecraft’ in The Monthly Magazine, vol. 4 (1797)

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Overview

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Hays: Obituary of Wollstonecraft

part 3|4 pages

‘A Few Facts’ (1797)

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Overview

part 4|4 pages

‘Letter to William Godwin, 13 Nov 1797’

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Overview

part 5|87 pages

Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, 1798)

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Overview

chapter |11 pages

Chap. VIII.

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Chap. IX.

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Chap. X.

part 6|12 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in The Monthly Visitor, vol. 3 (February and March 1798)

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Overview

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The Monthly Visitor.

part 7|5 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft, in The European Magazine, vol. 33 (April 1798)

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Overview

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Anon: Mary Wollstonecraft

part 8|4 pages

‘Review of Wollstonecraft’s Posthumous Works’ in The British Critic, vol. 12 (1798)

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Overview

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Anon: Review of Posthumous Works

part 9|11 pages

‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs’ in Anti-Jacobin Review, vol. 1 (1798)

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Overview

part 10|5 pages

‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs’ in The Monthly Mirror, vol. 5 (1798)

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Overview

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Anon: Review of Godwin’s

part 11|8 pages

‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs’ in Analytical Review, vol. 27 (1798)

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Overview

chapter |6 pages

Anon: Review of Godwin’s Memoirs

part 12|3 pages

‘Letter to Humphrey Repton, 13 April 1798’, in Letters of Anna Seward Written Retween the Years 1784 and 1807, 6 vols (Edinburgh, 1811)

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Overview

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Seward: Letters

part 13|11 pages

The Unsex’d Females (London, 1798)

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Overview

chapter |9 pages

Polwhele: Unsex’d Females

part 14|5 pages

The Shade of Alexander Pope (London, 1799)

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Overview

part 15|14 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in The Annual Necrology for 1797–8 (London, 1800)

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Overview

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Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft.

part 16|4 pages

‘Review of “Mary Wollstonecraft” in Annual Necrology’ in Anti-Jacobin Review, vol. 5 (1800)

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Overview

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Anon: Review of Mary Wollstonecraft

part 17|3 pages

‘The Vision of Liberty’ in Anti-Jacobin Review, vol. 9 (1801) Appendix

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Overview

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Vision of Liberty

part 18|32 pages

A Defence of the Character and Conduct of the Late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (London, 1803)

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Overview

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Anon: Defence of Conduct

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Letter IV.

part 19|5 pages

‘Life of Fuseli’ in Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, 6 vols (London, 1829–33)

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Overview

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Cunningham: Life of Fuseli

part 20|12 pages

The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, 3 vols (London, 1831)

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Overview

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Knowles: Life Writings of Fuseli

part 21|4 pages

‘Life of William Godwin’ (1836–40)

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Overview

part 22|5 pages

Autobiography (Dublin, 1840)

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Overview

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Rowan: Autobiography

part 23|12 pages

Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England from the Commencement of the Last Century, 2 vols (London, 1843)

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Overview

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Elwood: Literary Ladies

part 24|4 pages

‘Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft’ in Leader, vol. 6 (October 1855)

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Overview

part 25|5 pages

Autobiography, 3 vols (London, 1877)

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Overview

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Martineau: Autobiography

part 26|19 pages

William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries, 2 vols (London, 1876)

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Overview

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Kegan Paul, William Godwin

part 27|12 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication’ in Fraser's Magazine, vol. 17 (June 1878)

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Overview

part 28|7 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in New Quarterly Magazine vol. 10 (July 1878)

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Overview

chapter |5 pages

Mary Wollstonecraft.

part 29|16 pages

The Literary History of England in the end of the Eighteenth and beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries, 3 vols (London, 1882)

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Overview

part 30|4 pages

‘Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli’, Jocoseria (London, 1883)

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Overview

part 31|16 pages

Mary Wollstonecraft (London, 1885)

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Overview

part 32|10 pages

A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London, 1898)

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Overview