William Godwin – philosopher, novelist, and political thinker – was born on 3 March 1756. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft (English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women’s rights) the father of Mary Shelley, and the father-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley. A central figure of early political radicalism and Enlightenment […]

William Godwin: Power and Intellectual Conflict