![]() ![]() The two later had a daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who we now know as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The two were a very controversial couple that sparked interest all across Britain and Europe. Godwin is also famous for his marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, the famed feminist author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). He is seen as a political radical for his use of literature to openly oppose political institutions. In these books, Godwin opposed the idea of class systems and the political institutions they entail. ![]() He was the father of philosophical anarchism and is most famous for his works An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and Things as They Are or, The Adventures of, Caleb Williams (1794). William Godwin (1756 – 1836) was a poet, political philosopher, journalist, and novelist during the late 18th to the early 19th century. ![]()
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