Lives of the great romantics

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Lives of the great romantics

W. Pickering, 1996-

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General editor: John Mullan

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Description

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

  • Volume 1 William Godwin Extracts from: Elizabeth Hamilton, Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796)
  • Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796)
  • [John Fenwick], 'Mr Godwin', Public Characters of 1799-1800 (1801)
  • William Austin, Letters from London: Written during the Years 1802 to 1803 (1804)
  • William Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, Esq. Late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1813)
  • William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surrey Institution (1819)
  • [G F Deane], 'Living Authors, No 3', The London Magazine (1820)
  • [Thomas Talfourd], 'The Living Novelists: Godwin' New Monthly Magazine (1820)
  • Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Illustrations of Phrenology, with Engravings (1820)
  • Charles Lamb, 'The Old Actors', London Magazine (1822)
  • William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age
  • 'William Godwin' (1825)
  • and Conversations of James Northcote (1830)
  • Mary Shelley, 'Memoirs of William Godwin' prefixed to Caleb Williams, Bentley's Standard Novels (1831)
  • [Signed 'R'], 'On the Writings and Character of Godwin', The Tatler (1831)
  • [William Maginn]
  • 'Gallery of Literary Characters, No. LIII: William Godwin, Esq.', Fraser's Magazine (1834)
  • Joseph Gerrald, The Trial of Joseph Gerrald before the High Court ... at Edinburgh, on the 13th and 14th March, 1794 ... with an Original Memoir and Notes (1835)
  • Sir Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-8)
  • Thomas De Quincey, 'Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Literary Connexions or Acquaintances', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1837) and 'Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits - William Godwin', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
  • Horace Smith, 'A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance', New Monthly Magazine (1848)
  • Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb... (1848)
  • Harriet Martineau, The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace: 1816-1846 (1849)
  • Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Memorials of Amelia Opie (1854)
  • John Binns, Recollections of the Life of John Binns: Twenty-Nine Years in Europe and Fifty-Three in the United States (1854)
  • Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1858)
  • Lady Jane Shelley, Shelley Memorials (1859)
  • Cyrus Redding, Yesterday and To-day (1863)
  • Henry Crabb Robinson, Diary, Reminiscences and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (1869)
  • Robert Dale Owen, Threading My Way (1874)
  • Lucy Aikin and Anna Laetitia Le Breton (eds), The Correspondence of William Ellery Channing and Lucy Aikin (1874)
  • George Ticknor, Life, Letters and Journal of George Ticknor (1876)
  • Harriet Martineau, Autobiography (1877)
  • Paul C Kegan, William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (1876)
  • John Edward Trelawny, Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author (1878)
  • James A Froude, Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of his Life 1795-1835 (1882)
  • Robert Blakey, Memoirs of Dr Robert Blakey (1889)
  • Graham Wallas, The Life of Francis Place (1898)
  • Aaron Burr, The Private Journals of Aaron Burr (1903)
  • Charles MacFarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (1917)
  • Maria Gisborne, Maria Gisborne and Edward Williams: Shelley's Friends: Their Journal and Letters (1951) Volume 2 Mary Wollstonecraft Extracts from: [Anon], 'Obituary of Wollstonecraft', Gentleman's Magazine (1797)
  • [Mary Hays] 'Obituary of Wollstonecraft', Monthly Magazine (1797)
  • [Joseph Johnson] 'A Few Facts', Letter to William Godwin from I B Johnson of Derby (1767)
  • William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)
  • [Robert Bisset] 'Review of Godwin's Memoirs' Anti-Jacobin, (1798)
  • 'Mary Wollstonecraft', Monthly Visitor (1798)
  • 'Mary Wollstonecraft', European Magazine (1798)
  • 'Review of Wollstonecraft's Posthumous Works', British Critic (1798)
  • 'Review of Godwin's Memoirs' , Monthly Mirror (1798)
  • 'Review of Godwin's Memoirs', Analytical Review (1798)
  • Richard Polwhele, The Unsex'd Females (1798)
  • T J Mathias, The Shade of Alexander Pope (1799)
  • [Mary Hays], 'Mary Wollstonecraft', Annual Necrology for 1797-8 (1800)
  • 'Review of Mary Wollstonecraft Annual Necrology', Anti Jacobin (1800)
  • [C K], 'The Vision of Liberty', Anti Jacobin (1801)
  • Anon., A Defence of Conduct of the Character and Conduct of the late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1803)
  • Anna Seward, 'Letter to H Repton 13 April 1798', Letters of Anna Seward Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 (1811)
  • Allan Cunningham, 'Life of Fuseli' in Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters (1829-33)
  • John Knowles, The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (1831)
  • Mary Shelley, unpublished Memoir of Godwin (1836-40)
  • Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Autobiography (1840)
  • Anne Elwood, Memoirs of Literary Ladies of England (1843)
  • George Eliot, 'Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft', Leader (1855)
  • Charles Kegan Paul, William Godwin, his Friends and Contemporaries (1876)
  • Harriet Martineau, Autobiography (1877)
  • Charles Kegan Paul, 'Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication', Fraser's Magazine (1878)
  • Mathilde Blind, 'Mary Wollstonecraft', New Quarterly Magazine (1878)
  • Margaret Oliphant, The Literary History of England ... (1882)
  • Robert Browning, 'Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli', Jocoseria (1883)
  • Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Mary Wollstonecraft (1885)
  • Emma Rauschenbugh Clough, A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (1898) Volume 3 Mary Shelley Extracts from: William Godwin, 'Letter re: MWS' (1812)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg', The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814)
  • Dr John William Polidori, The Diary of ... (1816)
  • Sir Walter Scott, 'Review of Frankenstein', Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1832)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Review of Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus', The Athenaeum (1818)
  • Betty T Bennett and William T Little, 'Seven Letters from Prosper Merimee to Mary Shelley', Prosper Merimee, 'Letters to MWS', Comparative Literature (1979)
  • Maria Jane Jewsbury, 'Letter to Anna Jameson', Anna Jameson: Letters and Friendships (1830)
  • Claire Clairmont, 'Letters to MWS', The Clairemont Correspondence (1995)
  • Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S T Coleridge (1836)
  • 'Review of Falkner', Monthly Repository (1837)
  • Aaron Burr, The Private Journal of Aaron Burr (1838)
  • Charles Sumner, Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner (1838)
  • 'Review of MWS's edition of PBS's Poetical Works & Essays, Letters from Abroad', The Athenaeum (1839)
  • Richard Henley Horne, A New Spirit of the Age (1844)
  • Thomas Medwin, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847)
  • George Gilfillan, 'Female Authors', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
  • Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1858)
  • Edward Trelawny, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (1858)
  • Cyrus Redding, Fifty Years' Recollections (1858)
  • Lady Shelley, Shelley Memorials (1859)
  • Eliza Rennie, 'Mrs Percy Bysshe Shelley', Traits of Character. By a Contemporary (1860)
  • Thornton Hunt, 'Shelley By One Who Knew Him', The Atlantic Monthly (1863)
  • Robert Dale Owen Jr., 'Frances Wright, General Lafayette and Mary Wollstonecraft', Threading My Way (1874)
  • Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke, Recollections of Writers (1878)
  • William Godwin, 'Letter re. MWS', Mrs Julian Marshall's edition of Life and Letters of Mary Shelley (1889)
  • A C Haden, 'Mary Shelley: A Local Reminiscence', Dundee Advertiser (1897)
  • Jane Gray Perkins, 'Letters to Mary Wollstonecraft in biography', The Life of Mrs Norton (1909)

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Details

  • NCID
    BA27612249
  • ISBN
    • 1851965122
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    und
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    v.
  • Size
    23 cm
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