Chapter II: Mary Wollstonecraft 12

The new Settler in George Street, Blackfriars--Mary’s earlier
Story--Woman of Letters--Her Five Years’ Work--Her Attachment
to Mr. Johnson--Coteries of Philosophical Radicalism--
_Anti-Jacobin_ on the Free Contract--Godwin’s Apostasy--From
Blackfriars to Store Street--The Slut become a modish
Woman--Her Passion for Fuseli--Her Appeal to Mrs. Fuseli--Mr.
Kegan Paul’s strange Treatment of Mr. Knowles--_Rights of
Woman_--Plain Speech and Coarseness--Mary goes to Paris--She
makes Imlay’s Acquaintance--Her Assignation with him at the
Barrier--Their Association in Free Love--Mr. Kegan Paul
speaks deliberately--His Apology for Mary’s Action--He falls
between Two Stools--Wife in the eyes of God and Man--Letters
to Imlay--Badness of Mary’s Temper--Her consequent Quarrels
with Imlay--Her Sense of Shame at her Position--Birth of her
illegitimate Child--Her Withdrawal from France--Her Norwegian
Trip--Her Wretchedness and Rage--Dissolution of the Free Love
Partnership--Mary’s Attempt to commit Suicide--Was she out
of her Mind?--Her Union with Godwin in Free Love--Their
subsequent Marriage--Their Squabbles and Differences--Their
Daughter’s Birth--Mary Wollstonecraft’s Death--Mrs. Shelley’s
biographical Inaccuracies.