Lives of the Great Romantics, Part III

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)