William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries
Ch. X. 1797
George Tuthill to James Marshall, 13 September 1797
“3 Chapel Court, off New Burlington
Street,
[Sep. 13th, 1797.]
“I feel very much gratified at finding myself
numbered with those who had engaged Mrs
Godwin’s ‘particular esteem,’ and ![]()
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should rejoice to pay any honest tribute to her memory.
If a funeral consisted simply in the expression of affectionate feelings, I
should ardently desire to follow her; but I much doubt the morality of
assisting at religious ceremonies; and I cannot place myself where I should be
inclined to think I did not look like an honest man.
“It would be painful, very painful to me, if
Mr Godwin were for a single instant
to suppose my decision incompatible with the warmest affection.—Yours very
sincerely,
Mary Godwin [née Wollstonecraft] (1759-1797)
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.
William Godwin (1756-1836)
English novelist and political philosopher; author of
An Inquiry
concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793) and
Caleb
Williams (1794); in 1797 he married Mary Wollstonecraft.
