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A-Z: General definitions: William Godwin
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(1756 - 1836) An important and controversial writer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley. See biography of Mary Shelley.
Eighteen century English writer and philosopher and a feminist pioneer, advocating women's rights and equality.
English writer most noted for her first novel Frankenstein.
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