Mary Jane Godwin

EF , still writing and publishing little books for children, also ran the Juvenile Library (a bookshop) for William and Mary Jane Godwin .

He was already famous (or, to some, infamous) for his writings when he and Mary Wollstonecraft became lovers in August 1796. They married on 29 March 1797 (although both of them disapproved of the institution...

Having married Mary Jane Clairmont in 1801, Godwin acquired two stepchildren to add to Wollstonecraft's two daughters. Mary Jane was a skilled translator who had worked for Benjamin Tabart in the children's-book trade. She and...

Godwin's second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont , had a chequered past history. The two children she brought to her marriage were probably born outside wedlock, and perhaps had different fathers. She was a devoted...

LCL was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan , to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...

CN found solace and political support in other friendships. Lawyer Abraham Hayward and MP Thomas Noon Talfourd became her allies in her attempts to change the law on custody of children, and gossip soon alleged...

Charlotte Smith knew of this work-in-progress on 26 July 1800, when she told Mary Hays how she wished she could help EF with money or moral support. On 31 October 1801 Hays noted that Thomas Underwood

The publishing firm and shop called the Juvenile Library , run by William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane , which had traded at 195 The Strand since 1817, was bankrupted by the crash...

WG and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin , set up the Juvenile Library (a shop selling children's books and school supplies), and a publishing house to supply stock for it.

William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane , moved their children's bookshop, the Juvenile Library , to a new address, 41 Skinner Street.

Mary Jane Godwin (whom Charles and Mary Lamb disliked and called privately Bad Baby) published their prose Tales from Shakespear : Designed for the Use of Young Persons, with Charles's name only, though...

In early 1805 it seems, after Charles Lamb had already produced a children's book for the Godwins' new Juvenile Library , Mary Jane Godwin asked ML (who was not known as an author, though she...

Another of EF 's children's books, Lessons for Children, first appeared in 1809 and went through a number of editions as well as a French translation published by M. J. Godwin in 1820.

The publisher was again Mary Jane Godwin of the Juvenile Library Seven of the ten stories were by Mary; again the book bore only Charles's name (which has affected its listing in library catalogues). The...

EF published through M. J. Godwin her interactive grammar book: Rays from the Rainbow, Being an Easy Method for Perfecting Children in the First Principles of Grammar . . . .