“Did I not see you, friend Godwin, at the theatre last night? I thought I met a smile, but
you went out without looking round.
“We expect you at half-past four.” [She did see
“friend Godwin,” for the
Diary shows that he was there.]
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.
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Author: C. Kegan Paul
Title:William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876).
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