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Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.95, Oxford Paperbacks
Jan 30, 2018 · Mary Shelley was the daughter of Wollstonecraft and William Godwin (not Goodwin – please correct). In the 1790s he was the most celebrated philosopher and novelist of the day (An Enquiry into Political Justice, Caleb Williams, St Leon).
In 1786, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a short tract entitled Thoughts on the Education of Daughters but it was the advent of the French Revolution in 1789 that brought Mary into the public eye. As is well known, the Revolution was welcomed by many radicals throughout Europe.
Biographical background John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft, (c. 1797). In 1790, at the age of thirty-one, Wollstonecraft made a dramatic entrance onto the public stage with A Vindication of the Rights of Men, a work that helped propel the British pamphlet war over the French Revolution.
The most eloquent summary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's position in English letters is still Leigh Hunt's much-quoted couplet from "The Blue-Stocking Revels": "And Shelley, fourfam'd,—for her parents, her lord, / And the poor lone impossible monster abhorr'd." Though recent studies have shown…
Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist.She wrote several novels, essays, and children's books, but is best known for her A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), a criticism of Edmund Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), regarded as her most ...
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) is a central figure in the history of feminist thought. Her texts, in a range of genres including educational treatise, political tract, novel, and travel narrative, analyze the subordination of women within patriarchy and advocate educational reform.
