As late as 1801 a 'poet' thought that Godwin had not suffered enough. William hath penn'd a waggon-load of stuff and Mary's life at last he needs must write, Thinking her whoredoms were not known enough, Till fairly printed off in black and white. By destroying Godwin's and Wollstonecraft's intellectual and moral reputation conservative England tried to discredit the ideals of the French revolution. Wollstonecraft and Godwin were the perfect targets. Although definitely opposed to revolutions or any other kind of violence, they were the main English representatives of the ideals of the French Revolution.
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When he discusses feminist matters, he is merely echoing Wollstonecraft. The recipe for a bestseller It is often argued that Malthus's first Essay was an integral part of the campaign against Jacobinical literature. I would not like to go that far. The Essay is not a political pamphlet. Moreover, the culmination of the anti-Jacobinical campaign was the commotion concerning Godwin's Memoirs .