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Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Title: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author: William Godwin
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Language: English
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[Illustration: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.]
MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR OF A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.
By WILLIAM GODWIN.
_LONDON_: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.YARD; AND G.G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1798.
[Transcriber's Note: corrobation has been corrected to corroboration]
MEMOIRS.
CHAP. I.
1759-1775.
It has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent on survivors. It seldom happens that such a person passes through life, without being the subject of thoughtless calumny, or malignant misrepresentation. It cannot happen that the public at large should be on a footing with their intimate acquaintance, and be the observer of those virtues which discover themselves principally in personal intercourse. Every benefactor of mankind is more or less
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
by William Godwin