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| (1756–1836)
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| Political writer and novelist, born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. His major work of social philosophy was An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), which greatly impressed the English Romantics. His masterpiece was the novel The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794). He married Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. A bookselling business long involved him in difficulties, and in 1833 he was glad to accept the sinecure post of yeoman usher of the Exchequer. |
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