[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.