England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley

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i n d e x Aesop’s Fables, 215 Agrippa, Cornelius, 104 Alfieri, Vittorio, 110 Allen, Graham, 13, 306n37 Analytic Review, 222 Ariosto, Ludovico, 161 attachment: and audience, 79; and autonomy, 73, 102; and benevolence, capacity for, 103; and detachment, 87–89; and familiarity, 50, 85–86, 113; and Frankenstein’s creature, 100, 103, 104–7; and Godwin, 5, 43, 46, 61, 66–91, 169–70, 263; and Hazlitt, 70; and intellect, 36; and knowledge, 72; and reading , 77–82, 86, 87, 90, 93–97, 98, 105–6, 109, 112–13; and reason, 67; and sentiment, 67, 89–90; and Mary Shelley, 92–93, 95, 100, 102–3, 105–7, 109, 112–13, 114, 119, 173; and Percy Shelley, 263–64; and universality , 69–70; and Wollstonecraft, 36, 66, 69, 84–85. See also domesticity; family; friendship; love; marriage; sympathy authorship. See writing Bahar, Saba, 9, 30, 39, 58, 292n40 Baillie, Joanna, 293n56, 296n29, 304n10 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia, 9, 84, 216, 260 Bell, Andrew, 216 Bennett, Betty T., 104, 127, 284n13, 298n4 Bentham, Jeremy, 317n35 biography, 1–3, 13, 90, 131, 199–211; and Godwin , 11, 42, 148, 200, 204, 240; and impersonality , 201–2, 204; and mourning, 200, 202, 204, 210, 211; and public/private, 200; and Mary Shelley, 11, 114, 131–32, 195, 199– 211; and Percy Shelley, 204. See also death: illustrious dead Blake, William, 215 Blood, Fanny, 1, 24 Boreman, Thomas, 214 British Critic, 63 Brutus, 64 Burke, Edmund, 10, 45, 216 Butler, Marilyn, 135 Byron, Allegra, 162, 195 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 109, 162, 199, 202, 247 Calderon de la Barca, Pedro, 204 Carman, Colin, 317n32 Chandler, James, 260–61, 268, 270, 274, 289n67, 299n33 Chaucer, Geo√rey, 150, 169; Life of Chaucer (Godwin), 42, 53, 148–49, 150, 168, 205, 267–68 children, 15, 16, 212–65; and fancy, 217–18, 224–25, 227, 237; and Godwin, 4, 6, 19, 46, 47, 50, 62, 63, 85, 86, 108, 132, 212–14, 217– 21, 232–44, 261, 266, 275; and imagination, 234–35; and Locke, 214; and mourning, 251–52; and parenting, 249–53; and reading , 213–14, 230–31, 250; and romanticism, 215–16; and Rousseau, 208–9, 215, 216; and Mary Shelley, 4, 108, 132–33, 208–9, 212– 13, 219, 245–56, 275; and Percy Shelley, 261; and social change, 220–21; and Wollstonecraft , 4, 84–85, 132, 212–14, 217–20, 320 Index children (cont.) 221–32, 261, 275; and Wordsworth, 24, 215– 16; and writing, 230–31. See also children’s literature; education; progeny children’s literature, 213–15; of Fénelon, 206– 7, 256; of Godwin, 6, 213, 232–44, 246; of Mary Shelley, 213, 248–56; of Wollstonecraft , 6, 213, 221–32, 246. See also children; education; Juvenile Library; progeny Clairmont, Claire (Clara Mary Jane), 96, 162, 220, 262 Clairmont, Mary Jane (Mary Jane Godwin), 85, 86, 150, 232, 233, 253 Clarke, Eric O., 269 Clarke, Norma, 216 Clemit, Pamela, 144, 153, 154, 157, 160, 205, 285n18, 294n5 cohabitation, 29, 61, 78, 84, 296n49. See also domesticity; marriage Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 14, 26, 68, 70, 91, 109, 134, 215, 298n13, 307n57; and children, 216; Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 101, 153 Condorcet, 206, 208, 209 Conger, Syndey, 205 Cooper, Mary, 214 Cox, Je√rey, 179 D’Alembert, 209–10 Dante Alighieri, 27, 160, 175, 177 Dazzi, Christina, 249 death, 7, 10, 15, 162–72; alterity of, 169; and Derrida, 17, 275–76; familiarizing, 167, 168, 170, 188, 263, 265; and fancy, 134–35, 137– 38; and Godwin, 10, 75–76, 148, 149–50, 164–72, 188, 270; illustrious dead, 10, 50, 164, 166–71, 189, 193, 194, 199, 211, 219, 240, 265, 270; and love, 132; and marking graves, 165, 166; and monogamy, 266; and reading, 176, 184; and Mary Shelley, 8, 10, 93, 97, 102, 106, 107–8, 132, 135, 152–53, 162–63, 173, 175–76, 182, 186–93, 197, 255–56, 265, 276; and Percy Shelley, 197, 265, 266, 270, 275–76; and Wollstonecraft, 1, 137–38, 189–90; and writing, 10, 108, 132, 174, 190– 92. See also mourning Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, 215 Derrida, Jacques, 17, 171, 192, 275–76, 305n17 de Staël, Germaine, 30, 31, 202, 206 divorce: and Godwin, 48, 52; and Wollstonecraft , 34, 36, 52 domesticity: and death, compared to, 102, 106, 107; and Frankenstein’s creature, 100; and Godwin, 12, 44–46, 53, 60, 63–64, 82, 83– 84, 85–88, 102, 212; and reading, 82, 86...