Author:William Godwin

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William Godwin (1756–1836)

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English political writer and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchist philosophy. His first wife was Mary Wollstonecraft and their daughter was Mary Shelley. His second wife was Mary Jane Clairmont.

William Godwin

Contents

Works

• The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1783 (external scan)
• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice 1793 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The Adventures of Caleb Williams, 1794 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• The enquirer. 1797 (external scan)
• Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman, 1798 (external scan)
• Posthumous works of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman: Mary Wollstonecraft, 1798 vol 3
• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century, 1801 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1804 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Fleetwood, 1805 vol 2, vol 1 2nd ed
• The Pantheon: Or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome. 1814 (external scan)
• Mandeville, 1817 (external scan)
• Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, Her Husband, 1824 (short work) (external scan)
• History of the commonwealth of England. 1824 (external scan)
• Cloudesley, 1830 vol 2, vol 2, vol 3
• Thoughts on Man, 1831 (external scan)
• Deloraine, 1833 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
• Lives of the Necromancers, 1834 (external scan)
• Transfusion, 1835 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Essays; never before published, 1873 (external scan)

As editor

• The New Annual Register
• Tabart's collection of popular stories for the nursery (editor), 1804 vol 1
• A first gallery of literary portraits by George Gilfillan, 1813-1878 (1851) (external scan)

Works about Godwin

• Public Characters 1799 (external scan)
• * The spirit of the age, 1825 (external scan)
• William Godwin: his friends and contemporaries, 1876 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Godwin, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Godwin, William (1756-1836)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "William Godwin," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 31−58), London: Henry Colburn (1825)
• "Godwin, William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1906)

About Godwin's works

• Stephen, Leslie "William Godwin's Novels" in Studies of a Biographer vol. 3