ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the author's review of Godwin's Memoirs of his wife—the famous authoress of the Rights of Woman. To reveal the motives on which Mary Wollstonecraft had acted; —to paint the strength of her basely betrayed attachment to that villain Imlay, was surely not injury but justice to the memory of a deceased wife. The author has one fault to find with these Memoirs. It is a great one—the needless display of his own infidelity as to revealed religion, and his seeking to involve her in the scepticism by implication, not by proof, since he allows she was habitually and fervently devout. Why then should Godwin expose Mary to the censure of irreligion from the mass of mankind, who imagine God can be worshipped effectually in no way but their own?.
