Godwin_lives
@pamelaclemit.bsky.social
Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian I Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
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· Nov 25
RED-LETTER DAY: this afternoon I delivered the completed manuscript of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV: 1816-1828, to my editor at OUP. Contains 404 letters. Pictured (1) the last steps of a ten-year intellectual journey (2) engraving of Godwin by WH Lizars, after William Nicholson, 1816.
1. Thanks for the kind words, likes and reposts. I’m turning this into a short thread about Volume 4 of the OUP edition of Godwin’s letters.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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#OTD 1 December 1817: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, the only novel by him to be published in Edinburgh, & the subject of over 55 letters in Volume 4 of my OUP Letters of William Godwin, now at press.
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OTD 1 December 1817: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, the only novel by him to be published in Edinburgh, & the subject of over 55 letters in Volume 4 of my OUP Letters of William Godwin, now at press.
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Publication Day 📖💃🎉
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.
Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.
Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
December 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Publication Day 📖💃🎉
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.
Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
Essays on Logic, Ethics, and Universal Grammar, the latest volume in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, has today been published by @uclpress.bsky.social.
Now available in free, open-access .pdf, and in hardback and paperback: uclpress.co.uk/book/essays-...
#OTD 1 December 1817: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, the only novel by him to be published in Edinburgh, & the subject of over 55 letters in Volume 4 of my OUP Letters of William Godwin, now at press.
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OTD 1 December 1817: publication of #WilliamGodwin’s Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, the only novel by him to be published in Edinburgh, & the subject of over 55 letters in Volume 4 of my OUP Letters of William Godwin, now at press.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Small Business Saturday: a book ticket for M. J. Godwin & Co., the children’s publishing and bookselling business run by radical polymath William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, from 1805 to 1825. Read all about it in my piece for the Idler:
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Small Business Saturday: a book ticket for M. J. Godwin & Co., the children’s publishing and bookselling business run by radical polymath William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, from 1805 to 1825. Read all about it in my piece for the Idler:
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
Small Business Saturday: a book ticket for M. J. Godwin & Co., the children’s publishing and bookselling business run by radical polymath William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, from 1805 to 1825. Read all about it in my piece for the Idler:
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
November 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Small Business Saturday: a book ticket for M. J. Godwin & Co., the children’s publishing and bookselling business run by radical polymath William Godwin and his second wife, Mary Jane Godwin, from 1805 to 1825. Read all about it in my piece for the Idler:
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2019/10/08/n...
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Interesting article on the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on archival materials I catalogued at the British Library (as well as later papers still held at the Fund's offices): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n....
From Dylan Thomas’ shopping list to a note from Sylvia Plath’s doctor: newly uncovered case files reveal the hidden lives of famous writers
Exclusive: Hardship grant applications to the Royal Literary Fund, including unseen letters by Doris Lessing and a note from James Joyce saying that he ‘gets nothing in the way of royalties’, show aut...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Interesting article on the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on archival materials I catalogued at the British Library (as well as later papers still held at the Fund's offices): www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n....
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Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
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November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
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James Vigus analyses Hamburg Capitalism & Mary Wollstonecraft's reaction to it, using German-language sources.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Ambition! And the Desire to become a Millionaire!” Mary Wollstonecraft, John Parish, and Hamburg Capitalism
The emotional register of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), frequently melancholic, reaches its nadir in the concluding portion t...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
James Vigus analyses Hamburg Capitalism & Mary Wollstonecraft's reaction to it, using German-language sources.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
James Vigus analyses Hamburg Capitalism & Mary Wollstonecraft's reaction to it, using German-language sources.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Ambition! And the Desire to become a Millionaire!” Mary Wollstonecraft, John Parish, and Hamburg Capitalism
The emotional register of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), frequently melancholic, reaches its nadir in the concluding portion t...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
James Vigus analyses Hamburg Capitalism & Mary Wollstonecraft's reaction to it, using German-language sources.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
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We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on:
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
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Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
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I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
That Vase
Thinking about what "that" can do in a poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
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The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
October 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The gentlest, firmest, weapon for us to use in the culture wars, from Goethe:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
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The River Tees at High Force this morning after last nights heavy rain. There is some floodwater coming over the middle of High Force, but it had dropped considerably by the time I got there.
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
November 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The River Tees at High Force this morning after last nights heavy rain. There is some floodwater coming over the middle of High Force, but it had dropped considerably by the time I got there.
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
#highforcewaterfall #highforce #rivertees #teesdale #weather #countydurham
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Grateful thanks for kind reposts and replies. Disambiguation: William Godwin is now up on the OUP website, but ... 1/2
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William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Wishing you all - well many of you - a blessed writing day.
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Wishing you all - well many of you - a blessed writing day.
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I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
Irish Romanticism | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...