The Godwins and the Shelleys : the biography of a family / William St. Clair
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1991.Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks edDescription: xiv, 572 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780801842337
- 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
- 929.2 ST
- PR4723 .S7 1991
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 929.2 ST (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 001253 |
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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