William Godwin (1756–1836)
Author of Caleb Williams
About the Author
Writer William Godwin was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire on March 3, 1756. He attended Hoxton Presbyterian College and became a minister. He left the ministry in 1787 in order to become a full-time writer. His best-known works are Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and The Adventures of show more Caleb Williams (1794). In 1797, he married feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and they had a child who later became known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley the author of Frankenstein. He primarily wrote novels during his later years, including Mandeville (1817), Cloudesley (1830) and Deloraine (1833). He died on April 7, 1836. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
William Godwin's son, known as William Godwin the Younger (1803–8 September 1832) wrote a novel Transfusion which as yet is not cataloged on LibraryThing. When it is, this page will probably need to be split.
Image credit: Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill
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Works by William Godwin
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness (1793) 238 copies
A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' (1796) 159 copies
The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Eighteenth Century… (2003) 20 copies
Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin (Lives That Never Grow Old) (2005) 11 copies
The enquirer;: Reflections on education, manners, and literature in a series of essays (Reprints of economic classics) (2010) 8 copies
History of the Commonwealth of England: from its commencement, to the restoration of Charles the second (2002) 4 copies
The pantheon: Or, the ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome : for the use of schools, and young persons of… (1836) 3 copies
Instructions to a Statesman 1 copy
"Of History and Romance" 1 copy
"Summary of Principles" 1 copy
Memorias de Mary Wollstonecraft: Autora de Vindicación de los Derechos de la Mujer (Colección Mary… 1 copy
The Executioner 1 copy
Life of Geoffrey Chaucer ... including memoirs of ... John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster; with sketches of the manners,… (2011) 1 copy
On Law 1 copy
Enquiry Concerning Political Justive and its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness, Vol. II 1 copy
The Damnation of Theron Ware 1 copy
Faulkener: a tragedy 1 copy
"An Account of the Seminary" 1 copy
The Secret Agent 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1756-03-03
- Date of death
- 1836-04-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Wisbech, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Wisbech, England, UK
London, England, UK - Education
- Hoxton Academy
- Occupations
- author
Calvinist minister
journalist
novelist
political philosopher - Relationships
- Shelley, Mary (daughter)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (wife)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (son-in-law)
Clairmont, Claire (stepdaughter) - Disambiguation notice
- William Godwin's son, known as William Godwin the Younger (1803–8 September 1832) wrote a novel Transfusion which as yet is not cataloged on LibraryThing. When it is, this page will probably need to be split.
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She later married Wlliam Godwin and had a second daughter with him, the later Mary Shelley.
Godwin's honest and truthful memoir caused a scandal upon publication.… (more)