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    William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents...
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    philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary...
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  • English author, publisher, and bookseller. She was the second wife of William Godwin and stepmother to Mary Shelley. Mary Jane de Vial was born in Exeter...
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    Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833 – 6 October 1886) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic...
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  • William Godwin (1803 – 8 September 1832) was an English reporter and author. He was influenced by his father's (William Godwin's) work. Godwin was the...
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  • William Godwin was a British political philosopher, novelist, and journalist. William Godwin is also the name of: William Godwin the Younger (1803–1832)...
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    Mary Wollstonecraft (category Godwin family)
    had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died...
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  • Technology and Logistics William Godwin (1756–1836), English political philosopher Godwin of Stavelot, English saint Francis Godwin (1562–1633), English bishop...
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    English-American revolutionary Thomas Paine. Along with William Wordsworth and William Godwin, Blake had great hopes for the French and American revolutions...
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  • publisher, and bookseller Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of William Godwin Mary Shelley, daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley...
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  • movement. Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin (philosophical anarchism), Josiah Warren (sovereignty of the individual)...
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    William Godwin is a biography of the philosopher William Godwin (1756–1836) written by Peter Marshall and first published in 1984 by Yale University Press...
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  • William Godwin (by 1520 – 1557), of Wells, Somerset, was an English politician. Godwin's family were from Wells. He had four sons and four daughters. He...
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  • Fanny Imlay (redirect from Fanny Godwin)
    Fanny grew up in the household of anarchist political philosopher William Godwin, the widower of her mother, with his second wife Mary Jane Clairmont...
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley (category Godwin family)
    Grasset, 1923 St Clair, William. The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. St Clair, William. The Reading Nation...
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  • Godwin of Wessex (Old English: Godwine; c. 1001 – 15 April 1053) was an English nobleman who became one of the most powerful earls in England under the...
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  • influenced important writers of her day, including Frances Burney, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Giovanni Ruffini. She welcomed...
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    returned to the stage but began a relationship with the architect Edward William Godwin and retired from the stage for six years. She resumed acting in 1874...
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    Claire Clairmont (category Godwin family)
    married a neighbour, the writer and philosopher William Godwin. This brought her two stepsisters: Godwin's daughter, later Mary Shelley, only eight months...
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    abbreviated to Caleb Williams) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government...
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  • had a special interest on the issue of education from the works of William Godwin and Max Stirner onwards. A wide diversity of issues related to education...
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  • later anarchists. Many revolutionaries of the 19th century such as William Godwin (1756–1836) and Wilhelm Weitling (1808–1871) would contribute to the...
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    birth to her. Shelley grew close to her father, William Godwin, having never known her mother. Godwin hired a nurse, who briefly cared for her and her...
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  • individualistic philosophies that sometimes are in conflict. In 1793, William Godwin, who has often been cited as the first anarchist, wrote Political Justice...
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    led to the exile of Godwin and his family from England. It was during this exile that Edward offered the throne to William. Godwin returned from exile...
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    him against it. He was particularly repelled by Godwin's atheism." Peter H. Marshall, William Godwin (1984), page 240. Luke Ford, "Interview with Novelist...
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  • Anarchism of William Godwin is a 1977 book by John P. Clark on the philosophy of the moral philosopher and political theorist William Godwin. Dickinson...
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    Mills Edwin Godwin Jr. (November 19, 1914 – January 30, 1999) was an American politician who was the 60th and 62nd governor of Virginia for two non-consecutive...
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  • Mathilda represents Mary Shelley herself, Mathilda's father represents William Godwin (Mary's father), and the poet Woodville represents Percy Shelley (Mary's...
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    Register. It was built in 1879 by William Henry Godwin the owner of the famous tile manufacturing firm of Messrs William Godwin and Sons. These beautiful, multi-coloured...
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