William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries
Ch. III. 1800
William Godwin, Journal, 13 December 1800
“13. Sa. Captain Acts 3, 4, 5: Heptameron, p. 227. Call on Tobin
M[arshall] dines. Theatre w. M. Antonio. Meet
Reynolds: sup at Lamb’s w. M.”
Charles Lamb [Elia] (1775-1834)
English essayist and boyhood friend of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital; author of
Essays of Elia published in the
London
Magazine (collected 1823, 1833) and other works.
James Marshall (d. 1832)
Translator and literary jobber; he was a schoolmate and bosom friend of William Godwin, a
drinking companion of Charles Lamb, and associate of Mary Shelley.
Frederick Reynolds (1764-1841)
The author of nearly a hundred plays, among them
The Dramatist
(1789) and
The Caravan; or the Driver and his Dog (1803). He was a
friend of Charles Lamb.
John Tobin (1770-1804)
English playwright whose posthumous
The Honey Moon was performed
with success at Drury Lane in 1805. The poet's brother, James Webbe Tobin (1767-1814), was
an associate of Coleridge and Southey.
