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3 days ago · United Kingdom. Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794; retitled The Adventures of Caleb Williams; or Things as They Are in 1831, [1] and often 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.
3 days ago · The story begins in 1793, when the English journalist and philosopher William Godwin published a book called An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. It predicted a utopian future and...
2 days ago · St. Pancras, after whom this district is named, was a young Phrygian nobleman who suffered martyrdom at Rome under the Emperor Diocletian for his adherence to the Christian faith; he became a favourite saint in England.
3 days ago · Southey also informed Shelley that William Godwin, author of Political Justice, which had greatly influenced him in his youth, and which Shelley also admired, was still alive. Shelley wrote to Godwin, offering himself as his devoted disciple.
2 days ago · She died young, and her widower, the philosopher William Godwin, quickly wrote a memoir of her that, contrary to his intentions, destroyed her reputation for generations. Wollstonecraft is regarded as the "fore-mother" of the British feminist movement and her ideas shaped the thinking of the suffragettes , who campaigned for the women's vote.
5 days ago · The ends will meet – I swear to you! Walter is the name I chose. To bestow to whom my woes. Were eclipsed by, a furry friar –. A knight to whom I would be squire. Fitting as it was at first, A second, surname soon would burst. Forth from lips, pursed in awe. By what the eyes told them they saw.
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5 days ago · After the marriage broke down, he eloped again with Mary Godwin, the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Westmacott, a feminist author. After the suicide of Harriet Shelley, he married Mary Godwin. In 1816 the couple went to Geneva in Switzerland where they happened to meet Lord Byron.
