1. Mary Wollstonecraft, Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed. Ralph M. Wardle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979), p. 413.
2. Mary Hays, The Correspondence (1779–1843) of Mary Hays, ed. Marilyn Brooks (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), p. 435: undated letter [early 1796] from Hays to Godwin. In this letter she hints that such had been the fate of a ‘beloved friend’.
3. Cynthia D. Richards, ‘Revising History, “Dumbing Down” and Imposing Silence’, Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work and Culture 3 (2003), pp. 263–94 (270).
4. The phrase is Barbara Taylor’s. See Taylor’s Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 188.
5. See Barbara Caine, ‘Victorian Feminism and the Ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft’, Women’s Writing 4.2 (1997), pp. 261–75.