Editing William Godwin (section)

==Second marriage and book publishing==
In 1801, Godwin married his neighbour [[Mary Jane Clairmont]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1055|title=Mary Jane Godwin (Author, Translator) – British Travel Writing|first=Ben|last=Colbert|website=University of Wolverhampton|access-date=16 July 2018|archive-date=16 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716053902/http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1055|url-status=live}}</ref> She brought two of her own children into the household, Charles and [[Claire Clairmont|Claire]]. Journalist [[H.N. Brailsford]] wrote in 1913, "She was a vulgar and worldly woman, thoroughly feminine, and rather inclined to boast of her total ignorance of philosophy."{{Sfn|Brailsford|2009|p=169}} While Fanny eventually learned to live with Clairmont, Mary's relationship with her stepmother was tense. Mary writes, "As to Mrs Godwin, something very analogous to disgust arises whenever I mention her",<ref name= TheLifeandLettersofMWS />{{rp|200}} "A woman I shudder to think of".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Monstrous stepmother: Mary Shelley and Mary Jane Godwin|first=Harriet|last=Jump|date=1 October 1999|journal=Women's Writing|volume=6|issue=3|quote="A woman I shudder to think of" (1814)|pages=297–308|doi=10.1080/09699089900200094|pmid=22624188}}</ref>

In 1805, the Godwins set up a shop and publishing house called the Juvenile Library, significant in the [[Children's literature#Origins of the modern genre|history of children's literature]]. Through this, Godwin wrote children's [[Primer (textbook)|primers]] on Biblical and classical history, and using the pseudonym ''Edward Baldwin'', he wrote a variety of books for children, including a version of [[Jack and the Beanstalk]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Jones |first=William B.|title=Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History|type=Hardback|edition=Abridged|date= 2001|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=978-0-7864-1077-4}}</ref> and a biography of the Irish artist [[William Mulready]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mitchell|first1=Sally|title=Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals): An Encyclopedia|date=1988|page=516}}</ref> who illustrated works for them. They kept alive family ties, publishing the first book by [[Margaret King]] (then Lady Mount Cashell), who had been a favoured pupil of Mary Wollstonecraft.<ref>{{cite web|title=Margaret Jane King Moore: Stories of Old Daniel: or Tales of Wonder and Delight|url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34919|website=The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.4: Irish Writing and Culture, 400–present.|access-date=17 October 2017|archive-date=4 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004021253/https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34919|url-status=live}}</ref> They published works never since out of print, such as [[Charles Lamb|Charles]] and [[Mary Lamb]]'s ''[[Tales from Shakespeare]]''. The Juvenile Library also translated European authors. The first English edition of ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' was translated (from the French, not the German) and edited by them.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hahn|first1=Daniel|title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature|page=234|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb66BwAAQBAJ&q=godwin+children+publisher&pg=PA234|access-date=16 October 2017|isbn=978-0199695140|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press |archive-date=2 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210702190925/https://books.google.com/books?id=Mb66BwAAQBAJ&q=godwin+children+publisher&pg=PA234|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Blamires, David. 6. The Swiss Family Robinson In: Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books 1780–1918 [online]. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2009 (generated 16 October 2017). Available on the Internet: <http://books.openedition.org/obp/605 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525144525/https://books.openedition.org/obp/605 |date=25 May 2021 }}>. {{ISBN|978-1906924119}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mary Jane Godwin|url=http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1055|website=British Travel Writing|access-date=16 October 2017|archive-date=16 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716053902/http://www4.wlv.ac.uk/btw/authors/1055|url-status=live}}</ref> The business was the family's mainstay for decades.

In 1807 his tragedy ''[[Faulkener (play)|Faulkener]]'' was performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane without  more success than his earlier play.<ref>{{cite book|title= The History of Wisbech and the Fens|author= Walker & Craddock|year= 1848| publisher= Richard Walker}}</ref>