Mary Wollstonecraft
by Eleanor Flexner
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This book shows the transformation of an intelligent, high-strung girl into the first great advocate of female liberation, whose advanced ideas about woman's rights and education were more than a hundred years ahead of their time.Tags
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For some reason, I kept confusing this subject with the lady who wrote Frankenstein--they are not the same as far as I can tell. Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for writing "A Vindication of Rights". This biography starts out with Mary's birth and childhood which were somewhat interesting, but once she gets into her writing stage, the biography style switched to a more academic style and was harder for me to want to read.
national book award nomination.
kind of boring. mary's life is awful but dull! she is mary shelley's mother.
kind of boring. mary's life is awful but dull! she is mary shelley's mother.
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- Canonical title
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Original title
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Original publication date
- 1972
- People/Characters
- Mary Wollstonecraft; Everina Wollstonecraft; Charles Wollstonecraft; Edward Wollstonecraft; Edward John Wollstonecraft; Edward Bland Wollstonecraft (show all 11); Edward Wollstonecraft IV; Elizabeth Wollstonecraft; Elizabeth "Eliza" Wollstonecraft; James Wollstonecraft; Joseph Johnson
- Epigraph
- I here throw down my gauntlet, and deny the existence of sexual virtues, not excepting modesty. For man and woman, truth, if I understand the meaning of the word, must be the same . . . women, I allow, may have different duti... (show all)es to fulfil: but they are human duties, and the principles that should regulate them, I sturdily maintain, must be the same. To become respectable, the exercise of their understanding is necessary; there is no other foundation for the independence of character . . . .--Mary Wollstonecraft, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"
We are Turks with the affections of our women, and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies go abroad liberally enough, with smiles and ringlets and pink bonnets to disguise them instead of veils and ... (show all)yakmaks. But their souls must be seen by only one man, and they obey not unwillingly, and consent to remain at home as our slaves--ministering to us and doing drudgery for us.--William Thackeray "Vanity Fair" - Dedication
- For Jean and Paul and Terry
- First words
- The birth of a girl child in London to the wife of a young silk weaver in the year 1759 was of no moment to anyone but her family, who probably wished that she had been a second son--boys could earn their keep when they grew ... (show all)up: most girls were of little use except eventually to bear children, preferably sons, in their turn.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Another was her niece, Edward's daughter, who had gone out to Australia, who wrote warm and affectionate letters deploring Everina's inability to join her in Sydney, where she would have been happy to care for her, and who also occasionally sent her money. Everina lived to be nearly eighty, dying in 1843.
- Original language
- English
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- Sociology, Anthropology, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 301.41 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Social structure
- LCC
- HQ1595 .W64 .F5 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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