The Boinville family had a long association with the Godwins. Cornelia was the daughter of Chastel and
Harriet and the family became close to the Godwins in the
1800s. Cornelia married Thomas Turner, another longtime advocate of Godwin, in 1812.
In the spring of 1814, before Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin became close, Shelley,
according to his wife Harriet, had been very attentive to Cornelia in her husband's absence. Godwin told Turner, who took
his wife to
Devon, ensuring she did not see Shelley again. (St Clair, p. 360)
For a fuller discussion see Harriet Boinville
