Godwin Mary

Author : William Godwin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803258526

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Godwin & Mary by William Godwin Pdf

The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin mirror the relationship of a remarkable literary couple. The correspondence collected here covers the period from July 13, 1796, to August 30, 1797, when "their friendship turned to romance, their romance to passion, their passion to consummation, their affair to a highly unconventional marriage during which they lived far enough apart to permit the continuing exchange of letters. Wardle, a superb editor, provides just enough annotation to allow the relationship to unfold by itself through the correspondence of these two doctrinaire rationalists, who both came late to love. . . . [Godwin & Mary] is the easiest, certainly the most delightful introduction to the life and prose of Mary Wollstonecraft."--Ellen Moers, New York Review of Books :Taken together, these letters help us to trace out the personal and domestic relations of Mary and Godwin at first hand, and they also throw a good deal of light on the contrasting characters of the pair. Professor Wardle's annotations are most helpful; always brief and concise, but never superfluous."--English Studies Ralph M. Wardle is the author of Oliver Goldsmith (1957), Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography (1951) and Halzlitt (1971).

Author : Charlotte Gordon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812980479

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Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Pdf

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now. In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein—two courageous women who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and feminist legacy. In 1797, less than two weeks after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft died, and a remarkable life spent pushing against the boundaries of society’s expectations for women came to an end. But another was just beginning. Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary was to follow a similarly audacious path. Both women had passionate relationships with several men, bore children out of wedlock, and chose to live in exile outside their native country. Each in her own time fought against the injustices women faced and wrote books that changed literary history. The private lives of both Marys were nothing less than the stuff of great Romantic drama, providing fabulous material for Charlotte Gordon, an accomplished historian and a gifted storyteller. Taking readers on a vivid journey across revolutionary France and Victorian England, she seamlessly interweaves the lives of her two protagonists in alternating chapters, creating a book that reads like a richly textured historical novel. Gordon also paints unforgettable portraits of the men in their lives, including the mercurial genius Percy Shelley, the unbridled libertine Lord Byron, and the brilliant radical William Godwin. “Brave, passionate, and visionary, they broke almost every rule there was to break,” Gordon writes of Wollstonecraft and Shelley. A truly revelatory biography, Romantic Outlaws reveals the defiant, creative lives of this daring mother-daughter pair who refused to be confined by the rigid conventions of their era. Praise for Romantic Outlaws “[An] impassioned dual biography . . . Gordon, alternating between the two chapter by chapter, binds their lives into a fascinating whole. She shows, in vivid detail, how mother influenced daughter, and how the daughter’s struggles mirrored the mother’s.”—The Boston Globe

Author : Julie A. Carlson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080188618X

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England's First Family of Writers by Julie A. Carlson Pdf

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Author : William Godwin
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122171304

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Godwin on Wollstonecraft by William Godwin Pdf

Author : Peter Marshall
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781629634005

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William Godwin by Peter Marshall Pdf

William Godwin has long been known for his literary connections as the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, the father of Mary Shelley, the friend of Coleridge, Lamb, and Hazlitt, the mentor of the young Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley, and the opponent of Malthus. Godwin has been recently recognized, however, as the most capable exponent of philosophical anarchism, an original moral thinker, a pioneer in socialist economics and progressive education, and a novelist of great skill. His long life straddled two centuries. Not only did he live at the center of radical and intellectual London during the French Revolution, he also commented on some of the most significant changes in British history. Shaped by the Enlightenment, he became a key figure in English Romanticism. Basing his work on extensive published and unpublished materials, Peter Marshall has written a comprehensive study of this flamboyant and fascinating figure. Marshall places Godwin firmly in his social, political, and historical context; he traces chronologically the origin and development of Godwin’s ideas and themes; and he offers a critical estimate of his works, recognizing the equal value of his philosophy and literature and their mutual illumination. The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed. In the final analysis, Godwin stands forth not only as a rare example of a man who excelled in both philosophy and literature but as one of the great humanists in the Western tradition.

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Golden Valley Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1947215140

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Frankenstein (Original Unabridged Version) by Mary Shelley Pdf

"The novel 'Frankenstein' by Marry Shelley is a very famous gothic novel and has sold many copies till date. It is a compelling book that has managed to grab the attention of audiences since day-one. According to some, the monster of Frankenstein is symbolic of the industrialization that created havoc and destruction in Europe in the nineteenth century. However, according to others, it stands for the fears in the writer's mind to changing times and new events. The novel is often classified as gothic since it dwells on mystery and the supernatural world. The setting is that of dark, sublime and exotic, making the reader uneasy. And, the 'double' feature only adds to the mystery and the sensation for the reader. According to some critics in the past and present, this is the first extant scientific novel written in English language. The writing style of the author is truly remarkable and is the main highlight of this book. The plot of the book has been well thought of and it has all the essentials that make a book a classic. It has the right dose of love, suspense, friendship and, quintessential to this book, human psychology. The book provides the reader with an understanding on life in a totally new and refreshing manner."

Author : William Dean Brewer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838638708

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The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley by William Dean Brewer Pdf

A number of their mental anatomies reflect the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions and his conceptions of mental transparency, sincerity, and environmental conditioning. Because his primary focus is on Godwinian and Shelleyan perspectives on the mind and its operations, Brewer avoids twentieth-century psychological terminology and ideas in his discussions of their fiction."

Author : Eliza O'Brien,Helen Stark,Beatrice Turner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030629120

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New Approaches to William Godwin by Eliza O'Brien,Helen Stark,Beatrice Turner Pdf

This collection showcases work on William Godwin (1756-1836) foregrounding new critical approaches and uncovering new texts. Godwin is a familiar presence in scholarship on the Shelley-Godwin circle and on Dissenting intellectual circles, but the present collection considers him closely as an author and thinker on his own terms. The range of texts and topics covered by this collection will be of interest both to scholars familiar with Godwin and those approaching his work for the first time.

Author : Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Feminists
ISBN : UGA:32108022364437

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell Pdf

Author : Julian Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11572886

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The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Julian Marshall Pdf

Author : David O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781315476247

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The Plays of William Godwin by David O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Best known for "Enquiry Concerning Political Justice" (1793) and "Caleb Williams" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836) is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. This book offers academics the chance to build a complete picture of Godwin as a writer and political figure.

Author : Diane Jacobs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743214704

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Her Own Woman by Diane Jacobs Pdf

Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages -- poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world. Her life changed when Thomas Paine's publisher, Joseph Johnson, determined to make her a writer. Wollstonecraft's great feminist document, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which brought her fame throughout Europe, insisted that women reap all the new liberties men were celebrating since the fall of the Bastille in France. Wollstonecraft lived as fully as a man would, socializing with the great painters, poets, and revolutionaries of her era. She traveled to Paris during the French Revolution; fell in love with Gilbert Imlay, a fickle American; and, unmarried, openly bore their daughter, Fanny. Wollstonecraft at last found domestic peace with the philosopher William Godwin but died giving birth to their daughter, Mary, who married Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote the classic Frankenstein, and carried on her mother's bold ideas. Wollstonecraft's first child, Fanny, suffered a more tragic fate. This definitive biography of Mary Wollstonecraft gives a balanced, thorough, freshly sympathetic view. Diane Jacobs also continues Wollstonecraft's story by concluding with those of her daughters. Her Own Woman is distinguished by the author's use of new first sources, among which are Joseph Johnson's letters, discovered by an heir in the late 1990s, and rare letters referring to Wollstonecraft's lover Gilbert Imlay. Jacobs has written an absorbing narrative that is essential to understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's life and the importance it has had on women throughout history.

Author : Pamela Clemit,Maurice Hindle,Mark Philp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351220804

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The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin Vol 8 by Pamela Clemit,Maurice Hindle,Mark Philp Pdf

A collection in eight volumes of the novels and memoirs of William Godwin, one of the foremost philosophers and radical thinkers of his age. There is a general introduction covering Godwin's life and literary works and each volume is prefaced by a scholarly introduction.

Author : Katherine Hill-Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015033955660

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My Hideous Progeny by Katherine Hill-Miller Pdf

"My Hideous Progeny" : Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship is a study of the influence of William Godwin on his daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. "My Hideous Progeny" explores Godwin's unsettling psychological legacy - and his generous intellectual gifts - to his daughter. The relationship between Mary Shelley and her father illustrates a typical pattern of female development and a typical course of father-daughter relationships over a lifetime. Mary Shelley's response to her father's influence is unforgettably portrayed in the figure of the father in the pages of her novels.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1798
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101036894374

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Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ... by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf