Who was William Godwin?

Political Philosopher and Novelist. Date and Place of Birth: 3rd March 1756, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. Family Background: Spent childhood in Guestwick, Norfolk.

Education: Hoxton Presbyterian College. Chronology/Biography of William Godwin: 1779: Started a five-year ministry of religion at Ware, Stowmarket and Beaconsfield where his sympathies turned increasingly republican. 1787: Turned a complete Non-believer.

1791: Took rooms in the St. Paul's District of London. 1793: His An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice brought him fame and the admiration of such people as Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth and Shelley. Shelley was later to become his disciple, benefactor and son in law.

1794: His publication of the masterpiece The Adventures of Caleb Williams was sceptical about much of the law, especially that of marriage, however it deprecated violence, especially against the state and he narrowly missed prosecution. 1796: Meets Mary Wollstonecraft. 1797: Moves to 29 The Polygon, ... more.

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