Their daughter, later known as Mary Shelley, would go on to write Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death from childbirth. He wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his life. Based on the success of both, Godwin featured prominently in the radical circles of London in the 1790s. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, an attack on political institutions, and Things as They Are or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, an early mystery novel which attacks aristocratic privilege. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.
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