William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries
Ch. II. 1800
Ann Hull Godwin to William Godwin, 28 March 1800
“Dear Wm.—I have but just time to write three or four lines
on a parcel to Mary Bailey. I hope you will write very
soon. I wish to hear how you and Your dear children do and poor John Hanh Jax
Godwin Mary Bailey goes on and poor
Harriot, and if Mary Bailey have
had the £5 I intended for her. Likewise if you recd
Turkey and Saccages sent in a basket to Hanh about 2 of January. I understand Jo accepts an invitation from Hull of coming to Dalling the latter end of
May or beginning of June. In his letter never mentioned wife or child. How
shall I meet such a disgraceful wretch as He my god Sustain me if this be
marrying may the others for ever keep single but what is men when left to their
own unruly passions.
‘The highest Heaven of their Persuit Is to live equal to the Brute Hapy if they could die as well Without a Judge, without a Hell.’ |
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“Your affecate
Mother,
A. G.”
“I am as well as I can expect to be and the rest
of the family who with Nath desire
respects to you and yours.”
Hannah Godwin (d. 1817)
The younger sister of William Godwin; she worked as a dressmaker in London.
Philip Hull Godwin (1765-1852)
The younger brother of William Godwin; he was a farmer in East Bradenham, Norfolk.
John Godwin (d. 1805)
The son of the Rev. John Godwin (d. 1772) and the elder brother of William Godwin; he was
a clerk, a gambler and a drinker.
Joseph Godwin (d. 1825)
The younger brother of William Godwin; he married in 1776, worked as a business agent in
London, and died in debtor's prison.
Nathaniel Godwin (1768-1846)
The younger brother of William Godwin who in 1827 obtained a place for him as a poor
brother of the Charterhouse. He had been employed as a sailor and as a servant.
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.
