Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III, Volume 2: Godwin, Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by their Contemporaries

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:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Copy Texts -- 1. Anonymous, ‘Obituary of Wollstonecraft’ in Gentleman's Magazine -- 2. [Mary Hays], ‘Obituary of Wollstonecraft’ in Monthly Magazine -- 3. Johnson, Joseph, ‘A Few Facts’ -- 4. Johnson, I. B., ‘Letter to William Godwin’ -- 5. Godwin, William, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- 6. Anonymous, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in Monthly Visitor -- 7. Anonymous, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in European Magazine -- 8. Anonymous, ‘Review of Posthumous Works' in British Critic -- 9. Bisset, Robert, ‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs' in Anti-Jacobin Review -- 10. Anonymous, ‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs' in Monthly Mirror -- 11. Anonymous, ‘Review of Godwin’s Memoirs' in Analytical Review -- 12. Seward, Anna, Letters of Anna Seward -- 13. Polwhele, Richard, The Unsex d Females -- 14. Mathias, T. J., The Shade of Alexander Pope -- 15. Hays, Mary, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in Annual Necrology for 1797-8 -- 16. Anonymous, ‘ Review of “Mary Wollstonecraft” in Annual Necrology' in Anti-Jacobin Review -- 17. C. K., ‘The Vision of Liberty’ in Anti-Jacobin Review -- 18. Anonymous, A Defence of the Character and Conduct of the Late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin -- 19. Cunningham, Allan, ‘Life of Fuseli’ -- 20. Knowles, John, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli -- 21. Shelley, Mary, ‘Life of Godwin’ -- 22. Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, Autobiography -- 23. Elwood, Anne, Memoirs of the Literary Ladies of England -- 24. Eliot, George, ‘Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft’ in Leader -- 25. Martineau, Harriet, Autobiography -- 26. Paul Kegan, Charles, William Godwin, His Friends and Contemporaries -- 27. Paul Kegan, Charles, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication’ in Frasers Magazine -- 28. Blind, Mathilde, ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ in New Quarterly Magazine -- 29. Oliphant, Margaret, The Literary History of England -- 30. Browning, Robert, ‘Wollstonecraft and Fuseli’ in Jocoseria -- 31. Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, Mary Wollstonecraft -- 32. Clough, Emma Rauschenbusch, A Study of Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman -- Editorial Notes.