If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book. She speaks of her sorrows, in a way that fills us with melancholy, and dissolves us in tenderness, at the same time that she displays a genius which commands all our admiration. Affliction had tempered her heart to a softness, almost more than human; and the gentleness of her spirit seems precisely to accord with all the romance of unbounded attachment.
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William Godwin, on her book, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796), in his own Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798), p. 95