'essential library purchases' Year's Work in English Studies

• Volume 1 William Godwin Extracts from: Elizabeth Hamilton, Translation of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah (1796); Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796); [John Fenwick], 'Mr Godwin', Public Characters of 1799-1800 (1801); William Austin, Letters from London: Written during the Years 1802 to 1803 (1804); William Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, Esq. Late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (1813); William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surrey Institution (1819); [G F Deane], 'Living Authors, No 3', The London Magazine (1820); [Thomas Talfourd], 'The Living Novelists: Godwin' New Monthly Magazine (1820); Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, Illustrations of Phrenology, with Engravings (1820); Charles Lamb, 'The Old Actors', London Magazine (1822); William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age; 'William Godwin' (1825); and Conversations of James Northcote (1830); Mary Shelley, 'Memoirs of William Godwin' prefixed to Caleb Williams, Bentley's Standard Novels (1831); [Signed 'R'], 'On the Writings and Character of Godwin', The Tatler (1831); [William Maginn]; 'Gallery of Literary Characters, No. LIII: William Godwin, Esq.', Fraser's Magazine (1834); Joseph Gerrald, The Trial of Joseph Gerrald before the High Court ... at Edinburgh, on the 13th and 14th March, 1794 ... with an Original Memoir and Notes (1835); Sir Walter Scott, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1837-8); Thomas De Quincey, 'Autobiography of an English Opium-Eater: Literary Connexions or Acquaintances', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1837) and 'Notes on Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits - William Godwin', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (1845); Horace Smith, 'A Graybeard's Gossip about his Literary Acquaintance', New Monthly Magazine (1848); Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Final Memorials of Charles Lamb... (1848); Harriet Martineau, The History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace: 1816-1846 (1849); Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, Memorials of Amelia Opie (1854); John Binns,