William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries
Ch. IX. 1797
Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin, 13 January 1797
“Jan. 13th,
1797. Friday morning.
“I believe I ought to beg your pardon for talking at
you last night, though it was in sheer simplicity of heart, and I have been
asking myself why it so happened. Faith and troth, it was because there was
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verse.
C. had wearied me before you entered. But be assured,
when I find a man that has anything in him, I shall let my every day dish
alone.
“I send you the Emma”
[Emma, or the Unfortunate
Attachment. A novel. London 1773] for Mrs Inchbald, supposing you have not altered your mind.
“Bring Holcroft’s remarks with you, and Ben Johnson” [sic].
Thomas Holcroft (1745-1809)
English playwright and novelist; a friend of William Godwin indicted for treason in 1794;
author of
The Road to Ruin (1792). His
Memoirs (1816) were completed by William Hazlitt.
Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
English actress and playwright; author of two popular novels,
A Simple
Story (1791) and
Nature and Art (1796).
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
English dramatist, critic, and epigrammatist, friend of William Shakespeare and John
Donne.
