pollin finds no evidence that imlay had been refused a position at her aunts' school, only that such a scheme may have been "in contemplation", as godwin later wrote, although seymour grants this explanation some plausibility. st clair claims that imlay was on her way to join her maternal aunts in ireland when she decided to commit suicide. he believes that it was to be a probationary visit, to see if she could be a teacher in their school. godwin's modern biographer, richard holmes, dismisses this story.