• Name: Fortnum, Sophia (née King)
• Gender: Female
• Occupation: writer

See .

Sophia King was the daughter of John 'Jew' King and a writer. See also the letter from Sophia King in April 1801 asking Godwin if she can borrow £30 and saying that she has a play due to be performed in three weeks which she hopes will allow her to repay him.

We have coded Miss King, Miss Kings, and 'Kings' , but also S Kg and S King. The instances are slightly troubling. It is rare for single women to call on Godwin unaccompanied when he is a single man or a widower. But the letter from Sophia King thanking Godwin for the candour of his criticism in June 1800 does nothing to suggest that she does not call on him. We do not have the letter Godwin wrote to her on 26 September 1800, but the only subsequent contact seems to be her request to him in 1801, and a chance meeting at an 'Emma Smith's in 1803.

Miss King is taken to refer to Sophia, she being, according to the DNB, the more likely to be the eldest.

• MS. Abinger c. 6, fols. 7-8: 11 June 1800
• MS. Abinger c. 7, fols. 30-1: 27 Apr. 1801
• DNB

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