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William Godwin

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William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism. William Godwin, or Will, is a young boy who was left an orphan when his entire family died of smallpox. After receiving a letter from his uncle, whom he had never met, he heads to London to meet him. However, once there he is attacked by two thieves and finds shelter in the apothecary shop of the evil alchemist Elias Theophrastus Spittle. He is then promptly made his assistant and sent to do his every bidding. On one of his tasks in the winter of 1664 he comes across a cat and her kittens and brings them back to the shop. Eventually he discovers the truth as to why he was kidnapped by Spittle and escapes him leaving the burning capital behind carrying the last surviving kitten—who will later become Jupiter.

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William Godwin, or Will, is a young boy who was left an orphan when his entire family died of smallpox. After receiving a letter from his uncle, whom he had never met, he heads to London to meet him. However, once there he is attacked by two thieves and finds shelter in the apothecary shop of the evil alchemist Elias Theophrastus Spittle. He is then promptly made his assistant and sent to do his every bidding. On one of his tasks in the winter of 1664 he comes across a cat and her kittens and brings them back to the shop. Eventually he discovers the truth as to why he was kidnapped by Spittle and escapes him leaving the burning capital behind carrying the last surviving kitten—who will later become Jupiter. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it. William Godwin (March 3, 1756 – April 7, 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism. 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, which attacks aristocratic privilege, but also is virtually the first mystery novel. Based on the success of both, Godwin featured prominently in the radical circles of London in the 1790s. In the ensuing conservative reaction to British radicalism, Godwin was attacked, in part because of his marriage to the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and his candid biography of her after her death; their child, Mary Godwin (later Mary Shelley) would go on to author Frankenstein and marry the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Godwin wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his lifetime. With his second wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, he wrote children's primers on Biblical and classical history, which he published along with such works as Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. He also has had considerable influence on British literature, literary culture and anarchism.