ABSTRACT
Mr. Godwin received the earliest part of his education from a schoolmaster in his father’s neighbourhood. To discover what accidents have assisted in forming the habits of a great mind is one of the most beneficial purposes of biography. Mr. Godwin began his literary life in 1782, in six discourses upon historical narrations in the Bible, and it was not till 1792, or rather the beginning of 1793, that Political Justice was published. Mr. Godwin was married to Mrs. Wolstonecraft in 1797. He had slightly known that most celebrated and most injured woman before her residence in France. The manner in which Mr. and Mrs. Godwin lived together may be presented as a model for conjugal life. Mrs. Godwin died in September 1797. In the scenes that belong to that afflicting period, Mr. Godwin was still to be exhibited in an unexpected light to those who were accustomed to regard him as a hard unfeeling theorist.
