ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Godwin: the Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication. The invitation was of his own seeking, his object being to fee the author of the Rights of Man, with whom he had never before conversed. We met two or three times in the course of the following year, but made a very small degree of progress towards a cordial acquaintance. She had, at first, considered it as reasonable and judicious, to cultivate what I may be permitted to call, a Platonic affection for him; but she did not, in the sequel, find all the satisfaction in this plan, which she had originally expected from it. She conceived it necessary to snap the chain of this association in her mind; and, for that purpose, determined to seek a new climate, and mingle in different scenes. The Vindication of the Rights of Woman is undoubtedly a very unequal performance, and eminently deficient in method and arrangement.
