Mary Jane Godwin [née Vial]

(1768-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Godwin, Mary Jane NRA: Godwin Mary Jane (d 1841) formerly Clairmont 2nd wife of William Godwin DNB: Godwin [formerly Clairmont; née de Vial], Mary Jane (1768–1841), translator and bookseller LBT ID: MaGodwi1841 VIAF ID: 4797377 LOC ID: nr92039409	B/BAP: 1768 DIED: 1841-06-17
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The second wife of William Godwin, whom she married in 1801 after a previous relationship in which was born her daughter Claire Clairmont (1798-1879). With her husband she was a London bookseller.
REFERENCES TO Mary Jane Godwin [née Vial]: Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, 14 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 1 January 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 17 February 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, [23 April 1802] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 24 September 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, 27 April 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 7 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, [10 November 1803] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, 10 November 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, 15 November 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 William Godwin to Thomas Wedgwood, 14 April 1804 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, December 1804 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, 9 July 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Horne Tooke to William Godwin, 22 October 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, [10 November 1805] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leonora Knapp to William Godwin, 10 December 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Mary Jane Godwin, [February 1806?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt [30 May 1806] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth 26 June 1806 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 7 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 29 January 1807 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 6 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 28 March 1809 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 7 November 1809 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ 12 Mary Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 7 November 1809 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, [1810?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to William Godwin, [1810?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 2 January 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 28 November 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to William Hazlitt, 28 November 1810 in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 15 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Godwin, 26 March 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to John Fairley, 5 October 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to John Fairley, 15 October 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Percy Bysshe Shelley, 14 March 1812 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ William Godwin to Hull Godwin, 21 February 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 26 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Godwin to John Lens, 24 September 1823 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Sir James Mackintosh to William Godwin, [late 1823] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 William Godwin to John Knowles, 28 September 1826 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 3 William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 21 June 1828 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Washington Irving to William Godwin, 14 October 1829 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 William Cooke to William Godwin, 5 December 1834 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 4 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XII 1808 Found 1: ¶ 18 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. IX. 1797 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. X. 1797 Found 1: ¶ 17 Ch. XI. 1798 Found 1: ¶ 26 Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Found 14: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 11 ¶ 25 ¶ 31 ¶ 33 ¶ 34 ¶ 35 ¶ 38 ¶ 43 ¶ 44 ¶ 46 ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Ch. V. 1802-1803 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. VI. 1804-1806 Found 4: ¶ 6 ¶ 29 ¶ 31 ¶ 40 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 3: ¶ 28 ¶ 30 ¶ 36 Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 16: ¶ 5 ¶ 8 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 17 ¶ 21 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 ¶ 16 Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 14: ¶ 10 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 28 ¶ 31 ¶ 35 ¶ 3 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 13 ¶ 21 ¶ 26 ¶ 2 Ch. X. 1819-1824 Found 1: ¶ 13 Ch. XI. 1824-1832 Ch. XII. 1832-1836 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 13 Letters: 1803 Letters: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 9 Letters: 1806 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 7 Letters: 1807 Letters: 1808 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 1 Letters: 1809 Found 1: ¶ 6 Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 9 Letters: 1817 Found 1: ¶ 4 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 2