Mary Jane Godwin [née Vial]

(1768-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Godwin, Mary Jane NRA: Godwin Mary Jane (d 1841) formerly Clairmont 2nd wife of William Godwin DNB: Godwin [formerly Clairmont; née de Vial], Mary Jane (1768–1841), translator and bookseller LBT ID: MaGodwi1841 VIAF ID: 4797377 LOC ID: nr92039409	B/BAP: 1768 DIED: 1841-06-17
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The second wife of William Godwin, whom she married in 1801 after a previous relationship in which was born her daughter Claire Clairmont (1798-1879). With her husband she was a London bookseller.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Mary Jane Godwin [née Vial]: William Godwin to Mary Jane Clairmont [Godwin], 9 October 1801 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 6 May 1802 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 28 October 1803 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 5 May 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 8 September 1805 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Charles Lamb to Mary Jane Godwin, [February 1806?] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Charles Lamb to Mary Jane Godwin, [February 1806?] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 5 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 11 June 1806 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 8 May 1808 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 21 August 1809 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 20 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 24 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 30 May 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Mary Jane Godwin to William Godwin, 14 August 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Mary Jane Godwin to William Godwin, 30 August 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 31 August 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 September 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 5 September 1811 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 19 September 1812 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 12 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 13 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 14 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 19 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 26 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 30 April 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 10 July 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 3 August 1815 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 14 May 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 22 May 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 2 June 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 17 June 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 9 July 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 16 July 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 10 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 18 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 21 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 26 September 1817 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 31 August 1819 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Percy Bysshe Shelley to Mary Jane Godwin, 29 May 1822 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 27 February 1824 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 31 March 1826 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 6 April 1826 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 21 June 1828 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) William Godwin to Mary Jane Godwin, 30 August 1834 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876)