Volume 36, Number 18 · November 23, 1989
A Family Romance
By Alan Ryan
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family
by William St. Clair
Norton, 572 pp., $32.50
If William Godwin had never written his Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, the history of philosophy would have been unaltered. If he had never written his novel Things As They Are: or The Adventures of Caleb Williams, the history of English literature would have been much the same. Yet in 1793 and 1794 these two books made Godwin the most famous literary figure of the day. As Hazlitt recalled in 1814,
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