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	William Godwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English political and miscellaneous writer, considered one of the important precursors of both utilitarian and liberal anarchist thought.
		William Godwin was educated for his father's profession at Hoxton Academy, where he studied under Andrew Kippis the biographer and Dr Abraham Rees of the Cyclopaedia.
		Godwin did not believe that all coercion and violence was immoral per se, as Bakunin and Tolstoy did, but rather recognised the need for government in the short term and hoped that the time would come when it would be unnecessary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Godwin (1435 words)

	William Godwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
		Godwin’s early works are wide-ranging in subject matter and include a collection of sermons, Sketches of History (1783), a proposal for the establishment of a seminary and an outline of his educational views, three novels and some political pamphlets.
		Godwin’s Political Justice was not in- tended as a contribution to the ‘Revolution Controversy’, the pamphlet war triggered by Edmund Burke’s assault, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), on Richard Price’s Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789).
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/godwin.htm (1768 words)

	William Godwin (1756-1836): The Apostle of "Universal Benevolence."
		Godwin's reputation as a radical thinker and writer was to attract a number of people to his side, though there were others who shunned his acquaintance, and some were naturally, or became ultimately, his enemies.
		Godwin's system the 'omnipotence of reason' supersedes the use of law and government, merges the imperfection of the means in the grandeur of the end, and leaves but one class of ideas or motives, the highest and the least attainable possible.
		Godwin, it seems, ill-treated his children: "The worst feature of his character was his implacability towards his children, whom he hated, alleging that they were not his own."19 In 1814, the 17 year old Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin accompanied the 26 year old Shelley to France; her half-sister, Jane Clairmont went along so to form a threesome.
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	Edward William Godwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward William Godwin (Bristol, May 26, 1833 - October 6, 1886) was a progressive British architect-designer, who began working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s.
		Godwin was widowed in 1865; his affair with the renowned actress Ellen Terry between 1868 and 1874, incurred her retirement with him to Hertfordshire, and produced two children, one of them Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), who became an important actor, designer, director, and theoretical writer of the early 20th century European stage.
		In the 1870s and 80s Godwin's designs could be found at Liberty and Co., his wallpapers, printed textiles, tiles, "art furniture" or metalwork set the tone in houses of those with an artistic and progressive bent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_William_Godwin (653 words)

	William Godwin
		William Godwin (1756-1836) was the founder of philosophical anarchism.
		Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 at Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, the seventh of thirteen children of John Godwin (1723-1772) a dissenting minister, and his wife Anne (c1723-1809), the daughter of Richard Hull, a ship-owner engaged in the Baltic trade.
		Godwin begins by defending the importance of political inquiry and refuting claims that moral and political phenomena are a function of climate, national character or luxury.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/godwin (6936 words)

	William Godwin, 1756-1836 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The father of philosophical anarchism, William Godwin, was born March 3, 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, and was the seventh of thirteen children of John Godwin and Anna Hull.
		Although Godwin perhaps never abandoned his basic contention that man ought to be guided by the laws of truth, benevolence, candor and justice, his experiences during the mid-1790s caused a shift of emphasis away from the cold rationalism of Political Justice, an emphasis reflected in subsequent revisions in 1796 and 1798.
		Godwin allowed the continued temporary existence of government because of the persistence of inadequate reasoning and strong vices; since reform came slowly in society, government could restrain those who harmed the well-being of others.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/godwin.html (1984 words)

	William Godwin - Encyclopædia Britannica
		GODWIN, WILLIAM - (1756—1836), English political and miscellaneous writer, son of a Nonconformist minister, was born on the 3rd of March 1756, at Wisbeach in Cambridgeshire.
		Godwin himself in after days modified his communistic views, but his strong feeling for individualism, his hatred of all restrictions on liberty, his trust in man, his faith in the power of reason remained; it was a manifesto which enunciated principles modifying action, even when not wholly ruling it.
		The second Mrs Godwin was energetic and painstaking, but a harsh stepmother; and it may be doubted whether the children were not worse off under her care than they would have been under Godwin’s neglect.
	www.benthamlinks.com /Godwin/britannica.htm (1594 words)

	William Hazlitt's Essay from The Spirit of the Age, "On William Godwin" (1825).
		Godwin is a mixture of the Stoic and of the Christian philosopher.
		Godwin's descriptions that the reader identifies himself with the author; and the secret of this is, that the author has identified himself with his personages.
		Godwin, in all his writings, dwells upon one idea or exclusive view of a subject, aggrandises a sentiment, exaggerates a character, or pushes an argument to extremes, and makes up by the force of style and continuity of feeling for what he wants in variety of incident or ease of manner.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/SpiritAge/Godwin.htm (3766 words)

	William Godwin, Book of No (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A profound optimist concerning human nature, Godwin nonetheless recognized the exploitative nature of capitalism and proposed a utopian restructuring of society whereby those who earn more than their basic needs would distribute the surplus to the needy.
		Godwin was no revolutionary and he did not advocate the physical destruction of government.
		Godwin's political ideas had a great influence on writers such as Percy Shelley and Lord Byron.
	www.blasvaldez.com /bookofno/godwin.html (858 words)

	William Godwin
		In his famous 1793 plea for anarchy, Godwin posited that the pursuit of happiness is the only object of personal and social ethics.
		In an early utilitarian leap, Godwin actually went on to argue that "Justice" requires the maximization of aggregate pleasure.
		Extracts from William Hazlitt's The Spirit of the Age, 1825.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/wgodwin.htm (250 words)

	An Uneasy Affair -- Chapter 1
		William Godwin, preacher, teacher, journalist, novelist, philosopher and literary hack was born on March 3, 1756, at Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire.
		The regeneration of society, for Godwin, was to be the result of a revolution in public opinion, aided by the Sandemanian dictates of sincerity, benevolence and rational discourse.
		But Godwin was still enough of a Sandemanian to believe that you did not have to be an ordained minister, as he as yet was not, to administer the sacraments.
	www.historyguide.org /thesis/chapter1.html (4306 words)

	The Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A Gallery of Saints & Sinners; Labor, Radical, Poets, Anarchists, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Godwin was the inspiring intelligence behind the humanist attitudes of the English Romantic poets & Utopian societies his spiritual anarchism is still a relevant concept.
		William Godwin was a English political philosopher who, while in the ministry for which he was trained, had cast off his Toryism & Calvinism & achieved a place of first importance as the interpreter to England of the French Encyclopedists.
		Godwin's ideal society is intensely equalitarian & a complete anarchy, although he tolerated the idea of a loosely knit democratic transition that would witness the withering of the State.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/saints/StWilliamGodwin.htm (406 words)

	William Godwin and informal education
		William Godwin (1756 - 1836) was the first writer ‘to give a clear statement of anarchist principles’ (Marshall 1993: 191).
		Godwin placed education at the centre of his thinking - it was the main means by which change would be achieved.
		Godwin’s educational thinking made some impact upon thinkers like Robert Owen - but it does not appear to have been a significant reference point for those seeking to develop more libertarian forms of education in the later part of the nineteenth century.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-good.htm (1668 words)

	"Mary Godwin's Remonstrance" (N Hilton, _Lexis Complexes_, ch. 4)
		Godwin, and ten years after that, as a result of never ceasing tensions in that relationship, Mary found herself shipped off for seven months to a family of complete strangers to her and "mere acquaintance" to her father (Mellor 15).
		Godwin's complete rejection of her during the two and a half years between her July 1814 elopement and December 1816 marriage was a monstrous outcome to the phantasy.
		In William Godwin's Memoirs of The Author of "The Rights of Woman", Mary read that "no two persons ever found in each other's society, a satisfaction more pure and refined" than had her parents, and that "[w]hat it was in itself, can now only be known, in its full extent, to the survivor" (262).
	www.english.uga.edu /nhilton/lexis_complexes/chap4.html (5157 words)

	Godwin, William (1756-1836)
		Godwin had many literary friends and on 24 Aug 1806 he was visited by Coleridge, who read his The Ancient Mariner to him and the hardly nine years old Mary.
		In 1832 William junior died from cholera and this was a terrible blow for Godwin.
		William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft were married in 1797 at Old St. Pancras Church, St. Pancras Road, London.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/biography/p001085.htm (793 words)

	Biography for: Edward William Godwin
		After Terry's return to the stage, and the dissolution of their relationship in 1874, Godwin married Beatrice Philip, a pupil in his office, on 4 January 1876; on 1 October that year a son, Edward ('Ted' or 'Teddy') was born.
		Godwin may have met JW in 1863, when he was an established Bristol architect.
		Godwin directed the 'Pastoral Players' at Combe Hill Farm for Lady Archibald Campbell, and JW painted their patron in costume (Arrangement in Black: La Dame au brodequin jaune - Portrait of Lady Archibald Campbell (YMSM 242)).
	www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk /biog/Godw_EW.htm (416 words)

	Judith Barbour, On William D. Brewer's _The Mental Anatomies of William Godwin and Mary Shelley_ - Romantic Circles ...
		The 1794 debut of Caleb Williams into the London of the Treason Trials, gripped by wartime paranoia and state repression, carries forward a history of "the private and internal operations of the mind" into the sphere of public morality and national governance.
		Demonstrably, Mary Shelley in 1836 is echoing Godwin's self-analysis in 1832, his "metaphysical dissecting knife" "displaying that tendency to dive into and anatomize the human heart." Brewer quite rightly emphasizes the rhetoric of anatomy as a master light of Godwin's seeing and of Mary Shelley's reading of him.
		In her youth, Mary Shelley read Godwin's work in the afterlight of Mary Wollstonecraft's death, and Godwin in old age read his own work in the reflected light of his daughter's mollifying vision.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reviews/back/brewer.html (1393 words)

	William Godwin of Nansemond County, Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A. WILLIAM GODWIN JR was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
		WILLIAM WHITEHEAD SR married RACHEL (--?--) at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
		H. JANE GODWIN was born at Isle of Wight, Virginia.
	members.aol.com /vafdking/godwin.htm (1649 words)

	William Godwin -- Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Godwin's belief is that governments are fundamentally inimical to the integrity of the human beings living under their strictures, and he propounds an enlightened anarchism as the key to individual development.
		In 1803 they saw the birth of their only child together, William Godwin, Jr., an event that brought the family (which included Fanny Imlay) to a total of five children involving five different parents.
		By the second decade of the nineteenth century, however, Godwin was overextended financially and, though as always vigorous in pursuing the life of an intellectual within the brilliant constellation of London, no longer a major star himself, instead spending most of his energies on staving off a total financial collapse.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Godwin/bio.html (1281 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| William Godwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Important political and social philosopher of the Romantic period, husband of the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary (Wollstonecraft Godwin) Shelley.
		In fact, it was Godwin's fame as a radical social thinker that attracted the attention of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who on a visit to Godwin first met Mary Godwin, whom he would eventually marry.
		William Godwin's liberal social theories had a significant effect on his daughter's novel Frankenstein; he himself wrote a couple of novels with pronounced Gothic features, most notably Caleb Williams and St.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/godwin.html (301 words)

	Amazon.com: St. Leon (Oxford World's Classics): Books: William Godwin,Pamela Clemit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Godwin's first concern, as always, is the way that the operations of government affect the individual.
		Godwin complicates the scenario of persecution, pursuit, and paranoia he worked with in "Caleb Williams" by giving his hero, Reginald St. Leon, a wife and children.
		Godwin goes deep into human psychology to explore how the vicissitudes of human fortune affect not only one man, but how his responses to the world affect everyone around him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192828339?v=glance (975 words)

	Érudit \| RON n26 2002 : Clemit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Though Graham's choice of the self-confessedly protean Godwin as an example of 'constancy' in a 'changing world' is open to question, this is a useful collection of secondary materials that would be hard to find, and even harder to bring together, outside a copyright library.
		In these years Godwin published, to largely benign reception, a prospectus for an imaginary school, two political pamphlets, a collection of literary parodies, three novels, a volume of sermons, and a history of the Dutch Patriot Revolution.
		For example, the policy of omitting extended quotations of Godwin's writings from all of the reviews is understandable, given space constraints, but the decision to give generalized summaries of the missing passages, rather than appropriate page references, leaves the reader very unsure as to what is being cited.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2002/v/n26/005702ar.html (1161 words)

	William Godwin
		William Godwin was born at Wisbech in 1756.
		Godwin left college as a Tory but after five years as a minister he had developed radical political views.
		In 1797 Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft but she died soon after their daughter was born.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRgodwin.htm (236 words)

	William Godwin (1756-1836), Philosopher and novelist
		Philosopher and novelist, Godwin was arguably the most famous English writer of the revolutionary period and the leading radical spokesman.
		Despite having argued against the need for marriage, he married the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 when she was pregnant with their daughter, the future Mary Shelley.
		Godwin had a powerful influence on the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Shelley.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01808 (215 words)

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