"Caleb Williams" went through a number of editions, and was dramatized by Colman the younger under the title of "The Iron Chest." It has now been out of print for many years.

Godwin wrote several other novels, but one alone is readable now, "St.Leon," which is philosophical in idea and purpose, and contains some passages of singular eloquence and beauty.
Godwin married the authoress of the "Rights of Woman," Mary Wollstonecraft, in 1797, losing her the same year.

Their daughter was the gifted wife of the poet Shelley.

He was a social man, particularly fond of whist, and was on terms of intimacy and affection with many celebrated men and women.

Tom Paine, Josiah Wedgwood, and Curran were among his closest male friends, while the story of his friendships with Mrs.Inchbald, Amelia Opie, with the lady immortalized by Shelley as Maria Gisborne, and with those literary sisters, Sophia and Harriet Lee, authors of the "Canterbury Tales," has a certain sentimental interest.
Afterwards he became known to Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Lamb.