English journalist, political philosopher and novelist

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Thinkers, writers, jurists and clergy associated with Henry Crabb Robinson. Photolithograph, 1887, after E. Armitage.

A fantasy of reason : the life and thought of William Godwin / Don Locke.

Progress, poverty, and population : re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus / John Avery.

Lives of the necromancers, or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power / By William Godwin.

Essay on sepulchres: or, a proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred / By William Godwin.

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Godwin, William, 1756-1836

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Lives of the necromancers, or, An account of the most eminent persons in successive ages who have claimed for themselves, or to whom has been imputed by others, the exercise of magical power / By William Godwin.

Essay on sepulchres: or, a proposal for erecting some memorial of the illustrious dead in all ages on the spot where their remains have been interred / By William Godwin.

Progress, poverty, and population : re-reading Condorcet, Godwin, and Malthus / John Avery.