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William Godwin und Mary Wollstonecraft

Helene Simon · 1909

A 1909 German scholarly study examining the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin together.

This later German biography studies Wollstonecraft's life and ideas alongside those of William Godwin.

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Title page of the 1909 German book 'William Godwin und Mary Wollstonecraft', subtitled 'Eine biographisch-soziologische Studie', by Helene Simon. Below the author's name is a publisher's device with 'CHB' and a Roman-numeral date. Imprint reads 'München 1909, C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Oskar Beck'.
Helene Simon, William Godwin und Mary Wollstonecraft, 1909. Munich: C. H. Beck.

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This is the title page of a 1909 German book called William Godwin und Mary Wollstonecraft: Eine biographisch-soziologische Studie, written by Helene Simon and published in Munich by C. H. Beck.

Why it matters

Written more than a century after Wollstonecraft's death, this biographical-sociological study shows how later scholars, even outside Britain, took serious academic interest in Wollstonecraft and her partner William Godwin. It reflects how her ideas and life story kept being reinterpreted long after she died.

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  • Why might a German scholar in 1909 be interested in an English writer who died over a century earlier?
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