From the July 2011 Issue William St Clair welcomes the publication of William Godwin’s Letters and Diary The Letters of William Godwin, Volume 1: 1778–1797 By Pamela Clemit (ed) William Godwin’s Diary: Reconstructing a Social and Political Culture 1788–1836 By David O’Shaughnessy, Mark Philp, Victoria Myers, James Cummings (eds) Claire Clairmont, Mary Jane’s Daughter: New Correspondence with Claire’s Father By Vicki Parslow LR
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