Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William GodwinLIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series edited by Richard Holmes recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece still thrilling to read and vividly alive. The philosopher William Godwin fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their child, the late Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut himself up in his