After his new wife’s premature death in 1797 following the birth of her second and their first child, Mary, William Godwin wrote Memoirs of the Author of The Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1798. Read along with me the final chapter in which he documents the ten days following the birth until her death. Have tissues at the ready.

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