How William Godwin dynamited his wife's reputation
And created a portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that's lasted for two hundred years
Note, I wrote this post about twelve months ago, but there was never a great time to post it. So now it’s in my Substack’s perpetual reserve, for when I run dry on ideas, which has come approximately…now.
Recently I got into 18th century novels again, through my e-readers “Show me a random book” function, I ended up reading Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple …
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