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This work is mentioned in the diary a total of 32 times.
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Written in the months following Mary Wollstonecraft's death in September 1797, Godwin's frankness about Wollstonecraft's sexual history attracted fierce hostility from the conservative press, damaging both of their reputations. Sold in one small octavo volume at 3s 6d, illustrated with an engraving of John Opie's portrait of Wollstonecraft. It was published alongside The Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (four small octavo volumes, 14s), which Godwin had edited.