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.

Works

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

As editor

The New Annual Register
Tabart's collection of popular stories for the nursery (1804) IA
A first gallery of literary portraits by George Gilfillan (1813-1878) (1851) IA

Works about Godwin

Public Characters (1799) IA
"William Godwin," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 31−58), London: Henry Colburn (1825)
William Godwin: his friends and contemporaries (1876) IA 1, IA 2
"Godwin, William (1756-1836)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"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

"William Godwin's Novels" in Studies of a Biographer (1898, vol. 3) by Leslie Stephen

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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