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Title: Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

Author: H. N. Brailsford

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THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE

LXXVII
SHELLEY, GODWIN
AND THEIR CIRCLE

_EDITORS OF_
THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE

PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY, O.M., LL.D., F.B.A.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY, D.Sc., F.R.S.
PROFESSOR G. N. CLARK, LL.D., F.B.A.

SHELLEY, GODWIN
AND THEIR CIRCLE

_By_
H. N. BRAILSFORD
M.A.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO

_First published in 1913, and reprinted in 1919, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1936
and 1942_

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND 7

II THOMAS PAINE 56

III WILLIAM GODWIN AND THE REVOLUTION 78

IV "POLITICAL JUSTICE" 94

V GODWIN AND THE REACTION 142

VI GODWIN AND SHELLEY 168

VII MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT 186

VIII SHELLEY 212

BIBLIOGRAPHY 252

INDEX 255

SHELLEY, GODWIN, AND
THEIR CIRCLE

CHAPTER I

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND

The history of the French Revolution in England begins with a sermon and
ends with a poem. Between that famous discourse by Dr. Richard Price on
the love of our country, delivered in the first excitement that followed
the fall of the Bastille, and the publication of Shelley's _Hellas_
there stretched a period of thirty-two years. It covered the dawn, the
clouding and the unearthly sunset of a hope. It begins with the grave
but ent