 | William Godwin - 1798 - 232 pages
...ruggednefs of charafter, that diverfify her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, here totally difappear. If ever there was a book calculated to make a man...forrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and:. diflblves us in tendernefs, at the fame time that fhe difplays a genius which commands all our admiration.... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...ruggedness of character that diversify her vindication of the Rights of Women, here totally disappear. If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to be the book. She speaks of her sorrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and dissolves us in... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...ever there was a book," observes Godwin, in allusion to these letters, " calculated to make a man fall in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book." They certainly possess a genuine charm, and can be read with interest still. The writer moved about... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 232 pages
...ruggedness of character that diversify her Vindication of the Rights of Woman here totally disappear. If ever there was a book calculated to make a man...with its author, this appears to me to be the book." One will not be far wrong in suggesting that 184 the authoress herself may have had a personal attraction... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 309 pages
..."harshness and ruggedness" of the Rights of Woman, found in the Letters "genius" and "gentleness." "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author," he wrote, "this appears to me the book."5 And Godwin's friend Amelia Alderson (who was later to remark... | |
 | William St Clair - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 612 pages
...first copies and read it between meeting Mary in January and her return from the country in March. 'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man...with its author, this appears to me to be the book,' he wrote later. 'She speaks of her sorrows in a way that fills us with melancholy and dissolves us... | |
 | Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 312 pages
...so irresistably seizes on the heart, never, in any other instance, found its way from the press. ... If ever there was a book calculated to make a man...its author, this appears to me to be the book. She speaks of her sorrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and dissolves us in tenderness, at the... | |
 | Mary A. Favret - Literary Collections - 2004 - 288 pages
...Letters from Sweden (1796), as we have seen. This epistolary travelogue caused William Godwin to remark: "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me the book." Soon following the publication of the Letters, Godwin and Wollstonecraft became lovers and... | |
 | Karen Lawrence - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 296 pages
...in Letters: Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man...with its author, this appears to me to be the book," William Godwin wrote of Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Fiction - 1994 - 162 pages
...and in April 1796 returned a call from William Godwin, who had felt, upon reading her Letters, that "if ever there was a book calculated to make a man...with its author, this appears to me to be the book." 2 Within three months they became lovers, although they continued to live in separate households, even... | |
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If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book. 
