The Godwins and the Shelleys : the biography of a family

St Clair, William

The Godwins and the Shelleys : the biography of a family / William St. Clair - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991. - xiv, 572 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Norton, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 527-559) and index.

This is the first comprehensive account of one of the most extraordinary and influential families in the history of ideas. William Godwin's great treatise on liberalism, Political Justice, brought the ideas of the French Revolution to Britain. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, marks the beginning of the modern women's movement.

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Godwin, William , 1756-1836
Wollstonecraft, Mary , 1759-1797
Shelley, Percy Bysshe , 1792-1822
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797?-1851)
Godwin family
Shelley family


Authors, English---18th century----Biography
Poets, English---19th century----Biography
Authors, English----19th century -- Biography

PR4723 / .S7 1991

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