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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|6 pages
Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah
part 2|8 pages
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
part 3|14 pages
‘Mr Godwin’, in Public Characters of 1799-1800
part 4|6 pages
Letters from London
part 5|4 pages
Memoirs of George Fred. Cooke, Esq.
part 6|4 pages
‘On the English Novelists’, in Lectures on the English Comic Writers
part 7|22 pages
‘William Godwin’, The Spirit of the Age
part 8|6 pages
Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A.
part 9|6 pages
Illustrations of Phrenology
part 10|2 pages
‘The Old Actors’
part 11|14 pages
‘Memoirs of William Godwin’
part 12|21 pages
‘Life of William Godwin’
part 13|4 pages
‘Gallery of Literary Characters, No. LIII: William Godwin, Esq.’
part 14|5 pages
The Trial of Joseph Gerrald
part 15|3 pages
‘Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater’
part 16|3 pages
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
part 17|4 pages
‘A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance’
part 18|13 pages
Final Memorials of Charles Lamb
part 19|3 pages
The History of England
part 20|6 pages
Autobiography
part 21|3 pages
Recollections of the Life of John Binns
part 22|7 pages
Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie
part 23|14 pages
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
part 24|2 pages
Shelley Memorials
part 25|4 pages
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
part 29|27 pages
William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries
part 30|3 pages
Life, Letters, and Journals
part 31|6 pages
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author
part 32|3 pages
Thomas Carlyle
part 33|3 pages
Memoirs of Dr Robert Blakey
part 34|6 pages
The Life of Francis Place
part 35|4 pages
The Private Journal of Aaron Burr
part 36|6 pages
Reminiscences of a Literary Life
part 37|9 pages
'Journal'