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(1756–1836)

English writer and social reformer. Godwin enjoyed a long but mainly undistinguished career as a writer, but his great decade was the 1790s, when he became famous as a prominent defender of radicalism and anarchism . His principal work was the Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793). Godwin was a utilitarian, who believed that all government, and all apparatus of legal coercion, corrupts and perverts human nature. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft and was the father of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein .