Author:William Godwin

William Godwin
(1756–1836)

William Godwin

Works

• The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1783) IA
• An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) IA 1, IA 2 (3rd edition (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2))
• Things As They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• The enquirer (1797) IA
• Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman (1798) IA
• Posthumous works of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman: Mary Wollstonecraft (1798) Internet Archive identifier: posthumousworks00godwgoog
• St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1801) IA 1, IA 2
• Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (1804) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4
• Fleetwood (1805) Internet Archive identifier: fleetwoodornewm01godwgoog, Internet Archive identifier: fleetwoodornewm00godwgoog
• The Pantheon: Or, Ancient History of the Gods of Greece and Rome (1814) IA
• Mandeville (1817) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• Life of Lady Jane Grey, and of Lord Guildford Dudley, Her Husband (1824) (short work) IA
• History of the commonwealth of England (1824) IA 1, IA 3, IA 4
• Cloudesley (1830) Internet Archive identifier: cloudesleytale01godw, Internet Archive identifier: cloudesleytale02godw, Internet Archive identifier: cloudesleyatale00unkngoog
• Thoughts on Man (1831) IA
• Deloraine (1833) Internet Archive identifier: 00989983.5024.emory.edu, Internet Archive identifier: deloraine01godwgoog, Internet Archive identifier: 00989983.5022.emory.edu
• Lives of the Necromancers (1834) IA
• Transfusion (1835) IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• Essays; never before published (1873) IA

As editor

• The New Annual Register
• Tabart's collection of popular stories for the nursery (1804) Internet Archive identifier: tabartscollectio00godwiala
• A first gallery of literary portraits by George Gilfillan (1813-1878) (1851) IA

Works about Godwin

• Public Characters (1799) IA
• "William Godwin," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 31−58), London: Henry Colburn (1825)
• William Godwin: his friends and contemporaries (1876) IA 1, IA 2
• "Godwin, William (1756-1836)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Godwin, William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1906)
• "Godwin, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Godwin, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

About Godwin's works

• "William Godwin's Novels" in Studies of a Biographer (1898, vol. 3) by Leslie Stephen