Mary Godwin [née Wollstonecraft]

(1759-1797)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 NRA: Wollstonecraft Mary (1759-1797) later Godwin Novelist and Essayist DNB: Wollstonecraft [married name Godwin], Mary (1759-1797), author and advocate of women's rights LBT ID: MaWolls1797 VIAF ID: 51697482 LOC ID: n78095613	B/BAP: 1759-04-27 DIED: 1797-10-10
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English feminist, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792); she married William Godwin in 1797 and died giving birth to their daughter Mary.
REFERENCES TO Mary Godwin [née Wollstonecraft]: Fanny Blood Skeys to Everina Wollstonecraft, [18 February 1784] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop to Everina Wollstonecraft, [30] May 1791 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop to Everina Wollstonecraft, 3 July 1792 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop to Everina Wollstonecraft, 20 January 1793 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Wollstonecraft to Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop, 16 June 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop to Everina Wollstonecraft, 15 August 1794 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Gilbert Imlay to Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop, [November 1794] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, 27 April [1795] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Eliza Wollstonecraft Bishop to Everina Wollstonecraft, 10 May 1795 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Gilbert Imlay to Mary Wollstonecraft, 19 May 1795 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ n1 ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 6 April 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 2 Elizabeth Inchbald to William Godwin, 11 April 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 28 April 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 4 Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 26 July 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Mary Hays to Hugh Skeys, [September? 1797] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Thomas Holcroft, 10 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Eliza Fenwick to Everina Wollstonecraft, 12 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 3: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 ¶ 6 George Tuthill to James Marshall, 13 September 1797 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to Maria Reveley [Gisborne], [September 1799] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 9 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 5 Robert Southey to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, February 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24 July 1823 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Godwin to John Lens, 24 September 1823 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 4 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) The Death of Shelley Found 1: ¶ n1 William Godwin to John Knowles, 28 September 1826 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Mr. Shelley. With a Criticism on his Genius. Found 1: ¶ 1n Mary Shelley to Vincent Novello, 11 March 1828 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. II.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (August 1832) 129-46 Found 1: ¶ 28 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter XXI. Found 1: ¶ 52 Caroline Norton to John Murray, 1837 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) Switzerland: 1814 Found 1: ¶ 2 Byron and Claire Found 1: ¶ 13 Pisa: 1820 Found 1: ¶ 1 Smith, Horace, 1779-1849, “A Graybeard’s Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance. No. IX” in New Monthly Magazine 81 (November 1847) 288-094 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. V. 1797 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Ch. VI. 1799-1800 Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. X. 1804 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) William Hazlitt XXVI Found 1: ¶ 10 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. III 1795-98 Found 1: ¶ 8 Ch. XIV 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ 2 Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 32 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. III. 1788-1792 Found 3: ¶ 29 ¶ 30 ¶ 33 Ch. VI. 1794-1796 Found 3: ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 27 Ch. VII. 1759-1791 Found 15: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 11 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 29 ¶ 30 Ch. VII. 1791-1796 Found 16: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 9 ¶ 14 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 22 ¶ 24 ¶ 25 ¶ 26 ¶ 28 ¶ 29 ¶ 32 ¶ 33 Ch. IX. 1797 Found 9: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 10 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Ch. X. 1797 Found 7: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 6 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 18 ¶ 21 Ch. XII. 1799 Found 1: ¶ 3 Ch. XIII. 1800 Found 1: ¶ 34 Ch. IV. 1801-1803 Found 1: ¶ 31 Ch. VII. 1806-1811 Found 1: ¶ 16 Ch. VIII. 1811-1814 Found 3: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 12 Ch. IX. 1812-1819 Found 1: ¶ 10 Ch. X. 1819-1824 Ch. XI. 1824-1832 Found 1: ¶ 7 Ch. XII. 1832-1836 Found 3: ¶ 3 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 9 Leigh Hunt Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXXIII. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 1 Letters: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 10 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) SHELLEY Found 1: ¶ 15 WILLIAM GODWIN Found 1: ¶ 11