Godwin’s inexperience and lack of confidence meets with Mary’s insecurity and hastiness…Mary had spent many pages of the Vindication arguing that friendship was the best part of love. She also seems to have found a way to love Godwin through his writing...They kept their relationship a secret until Mary became pregnant and decided, despite all their arguments in print against it, to get married. The wedding took place on a Wednesday at the end of March 1797, at St Pancras Church, but they didn’t intend to set up home together, or stop seeing their friends apart from one another. ‘The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,’ she wrote to a friend. ‘I found my evenings solitary; and I wished, while fulfilling the duty of a mother, to have some person with similar pursu...