[74: Letter to William Godwin, Dec. 7, 1817.]
[75: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries. Kegan Paul, 1876, vol. i. p. 78.]
[76: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832.]
[77: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832.]
[78: Preface to Fleetwood, 1832, p. xi: "I read over a little
old
book entitled The Adventures of Mme. De St. Phale, I
turned
over the pages of a tremendous compilation entitled God's
Revenge against Murder, where the beam of the eye of
omniscience was represented as perpetually pursuing the
guilty… I was extremely conversant with The Newgate
Calendar and The Lives of the Pirates. I rather amused
myself
with tracing a certain similitude between the story of
Caleb
Williams and the tale of Bluebeard;" and Preface to
Cloudesley: "The present publication may in the same
sense be
denominated a paraphrase of the old ballad of the Children
in
the Wood.">[
[79: Scott, Introduction to The Abbot, 1831.]
[80: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, 1876, vol. ii. p. 304.]
[81: Caleb Williams, ch. x.]
[82: William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries, vol. i. pp. 330-1.]
[83: Political Justice, bk. ii, ch. ii.]