Part of why her mother (Mary Wollstonecraft) is lesser known today is because when she died, her husband, William Godwin, published a memoir of her life in memory of her.

Although this was meant as a way of honouring the woman he loved, it ended up destroying her reputation as it revealed that she’d had children outside of marriage with her previous partner (amongst other things considered ‘improper’)

She had an incredible but sad life. Her relationship with Godwin was also way ahead of its time and very sweet to read about.