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

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)
• Things As They Are, or 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 (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 (1756-1836)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, 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)
• "Godwin, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Godwin, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

About Godwin's works

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