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Edward du Bois : St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon

'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

Edward du Bois : St Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Century

''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Read some of Mary Wollstonecraft's letters in the Evening.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

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