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Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Godwin
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出版Independently Published, 2020-04-09
主題Fiction / Biographical
ISBN9798634852492
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ogCNzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋On 30 August 1797, Wollstonecraft gave birth to her second and Godwin's first child. Ten days later, she died of complications. The two writers had been a couple for only a short time, and Godwin was bereft: "I firmly believe there does not exist her equal in the world. I know from experience we were formed to make each other happy. I have not the least expectation that I can now ever know happiness again." In this frame of mind, Godwin felt it was his duty to edit and publish Wollstonecraft's unfinished works. A week after her funeral, he started on this project and a memoir of her life. In order to prepare to write the biography, he reread all of her works, spoke with her friends, and ordered and numbered their correspondence. After four months of hard work, he had completed both projects. According to William St Clair, who has written a biography of the Godwins and the Shelleys, Wollstonecraft was so famous by this time that Godwin did not have to state her name in the title of the memoir- : mention of her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman served to identify her.