Turner, Thomas |
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Thomas Turner admired the work of the philosopher William Godwin
and visited him very frequently from 1803 onwards. In 1809 Godwin
tried to put an end to Turner's visits, but in the end they
agreed that Turner would come only on Sundays. Through Godwin he met the Boinville family and he married their beautiful daughter Cornelia in 1812. Turner became a lawyer and was reasonably succesful. He was able to return some services and advices to Godwin and for the rest of his life he saw him as his saviour and adopted father. When Turner assisted the poet Shelley to get money from the Shelley estate, the poet had grave doubts about Turner's competence. Family • Wife: Boinville, Cornelia Related persons • visited Godwin, William • knew Shelley, Percy Bysshe Sources • St Clair, William, The Godwins and the Shelleys, Faber and Faber, London, 1990 • Feldman, Paula R. and Diana Scott-Kilvert, The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987 |