Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

William Godwin NPG 411

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Henry William Pickersgill

Philosopher and novelist, Godwin was arguably the most famous English writer of the revolutionary period and the leading radical spokesman. In the Enquiry concerning Political Justice (1793) he detailed his optimistic belief that if human reason could be 'perfected' this would allow authoritarian laws and institutions to be overturned. Despite being ideologically opposed to marriage, he married the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 when she was pregnant with their daughter, the future Mary Shelley. Godwin had a powerful influence on the ... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.