William Godwin's Diary

Wollstonecraft, James

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 131 times, but was not at home (N) 12 times, and was a venue (V) 4 times.

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1798

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1799

5  January  1799 15  January  1799 4  February  1799 4  March  1799 27  March  1799 13  April  1799 15  May  1799 4  June  1799 18  June  1799 5  December  1799 (N) 16  December  1799 (N) 20  December  1799

1800

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1801

10  July  1801 13  July  1801 18  July  1801 27  July  1801 13  August  1801 (N) 15  August  1801 (N) 18  August  1801 10  September  1801 12  October  1801 (N) 23  October  1801 26  October  1801 29  October  1801 2  November  1801 4  November  1801 (N) 12  November  1801 21  November  1801

1802

30  January  1802 (V) 2  February  1802 3  February  1802 7  February  1802 12  February  1802 12  February  1802 14  February  1802 (N) 16  February  1802 20  February  1802 27  February  1802 4  March  1802 6  March  1802 9  March  1802 10  March  1802 24  December  1802 26  December  1802

1803

3  January  1803 6  January  1803 15  January  1803 2  February  1803 3  February  1803 19  February  1803 3  March  1803 22  March  1803 29  March  1803 2  April  1803 5  April  1803 8  April  1803 10  April  1803 5  May  1803 14  May  1803 26  May  1803 29  May  1803 4  June  1803 2  July  1803 6  July  1803 10  July  1803 23  July  1803

1804

9  August  1804 (NV) 10  August  1804 (N) 13  August  1804 15  August  1804 18  August  1804 24  August  1804 2  September  1804 (N) 5  September  1804 11  September  1804 19  September  1804 (N) 24  September  1804 27  September  1804 1  October  1804 (NV) 2  October  1804 5  October  1804 12  October  1804 22  October  1804 29  October  1804 31  October  1804 9  November  1804 18  November  1804 5  December  1804 5  December  1804 17  December  1804 21  December  1804 23  December  1804 31  December  1804

1805

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  • Name: Wollstonecraft, James
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date: 1768
  • Death Date: 18  September  1805
  • Occupation: naval officer

See Todd's biography of Wollstonecraft. Mary's brother James Wollstonecraft went to sea, studied at Woolwich in 1788 and then went back to sea; was deported from France; and joined the Royal Navy. He died of yellow fever. Todd gives 1806 as the date of his death but we have entered the details as they appear in the diary, which has 'Jas Wt dies' on 18.9.1805.

'Uncoded references to members of the Wollstonecraft family are: One ref to Edw. Wt in 23.9.1817, unidentified. One ref to F Wt (19.2.1833) unidentified. On the three uncoded Wt jun entries in 1806, see the entry for L Wt

  • DNB
  • Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life, (2000, paperback edn. London: Phoenix Press, 2001)
  • William Godwin,Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ed. by Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001).

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Marshall, James 13
Godwin, Mary Jane (Clairmont) (née de Vial) 8
Lamb, Charles 5
Lamb, Mary Anne 5
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (née Godwin) 4
Smith, 4
Fell, Ralph 4
Hazlitt, William 3
Imlay, Fanny (Godwin) 3
Clairmont, Charles 3
Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe) 3
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 2
Fenwick, Elizabeth (Eliza) (née Jaco, pseudonym Reverend David Blair) 2
Holcroft, Fanny Margaretta 2
Holcroft, Thomas 2
Clairmont, Clara Mary Jane (Claire) 2
Fenwick, Eliza Anne 2
Dyson, George 2
Godwin, Joseph 1
Curran, John Philpot 1
Keir, Peter 1
Northcote, James 1
Wolcot, Dr John (pseudonym Peter Pindar) 1
Burney, Dr Charles 1
Rickman, John 1
Manning, Thomas 1
Montagu, Basil 1
Godwin, John 1
Wollstonecraft, Everina 1
Fordyce, Dr George 1
Smirke, 1
Nicholson, William 1
Fenwick, John 1
Stoddart, John 1
Johnson, Joseph 1
Fuseli, Henry (Johann Heinrich Füssli) 1
Bonnycastle, John 1
Fell, Sarah 1
Godwin, Hannah 1
Brown, William Cullen 1
Godwin, Nathaniel 1