Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin

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Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin
William Godwin

Richard Holmes

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece – still thrilling to read and vividly alive.The philosopher William Godwin fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography.True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin coolly describes Wollstonecraft’s previous love affairs, her time in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.

Godwin on Wollstonecraft

Memoirs of the Author of

‘The Rights of Woman’

by

William Godwin

Edited with an Introduction by Richard Holmes

Table of Contents

Cover Page (#u2d6bdb5f-8995-5f1b-b593-ad98a1c6559a)

Title Page (#ue3576986-0d67-597d-b928-fd0b72341320)

Introduction by Richard Holmes (#u7dbe0a34-4350-5f35-a406-a666e4a48ad5)

Select Chronology (#ud45ccd0b-caba-54db-b09a-67060f1dad0b)

Memoirs of the Author of ‘The Rights of Woman’ (#u4ab47f31-6f7f-5aa4-a795-8870c79284dd)

Preface (#u5b413833-1fdb-5ee2-9fbc-27b4147cf618)

Chapter One 1759-1775 (#ud2b4eb21-b065-58bc-a4f2-11c080708c78)

Chapter Two 1775-1783 (#ua6d1986f-4b98-5c86-9ceb-4415bc59629e)

Chapter Three 1783-1785 (#uecd7bba7-eddc-5f2d-b1cf-3c89b9d900c3)

Chapter Four 1785-1787 (#u353357e2-f98f-5e48-ac15-3fd5ef9bc7b4)

Chapter Five 1787-1790 (#ue9efc81b-15bd-51c9-93f0-683196fdc235)

Chapter Six 1790-1792 (#u20aad232-f862-5c08-a156-c05b05fc5f29)

Chapter Seven 1792-1795 (#u3a40ea17-f431-5195-9b03-e091f051426f)

Chapter Eight 1795-1796 (#ue86e8827-377a-54b1-88c2-830d6ccfad0e)

Chapter Nine 1796-1797 (#ud53852ed-925f-5f48-b539-e2e851bbc36a)

Chapter Ten (#uba29b7f3-6d61-558e-aacd-a87c5b733789)

Appendix (#u80ec117e-eb07-50bf-a8b9-737b1c4570a3)

Further Reading (#u3a0bfd66-18c8-5548-ab80-8099439c743d)

Index (#u135ae182-156e-5ed0-a041-7b9e36954d3a)

Classic Biographies (#u33e9fe05-0f8f-54a7-ab1b-41852b0b8b9b)

Copyright (#u76c1bb98-7ec7-5707-a9d9-0e63d127d7db)

About the Publisher (#u3ee14e7c-cd3c-5e48-95fe-cb08141c143c)