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  1. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility by Syndy McMillen Conger, 1994-09
  2. Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: A Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature)
  3. Midnight Fires: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft by Nancy Means Wright, 2010-04-10
  4. Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Man and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1995-08-25
  5. Lives of the Great Romantics III: Godwin, Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Their Contemporaries (Pt. 3)
  6. The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
  7. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life by Janet Todd, 2000-09-15
  8. The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Eighteenth Century Literature) by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, et all 2003-11
  9. Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Women's Rights (Oxford Portraits) by Miriam Brody, 2000-12-07
  10. A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft by Virginia Sapiro, 1992-08-15
  11. Mary Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Radical Feminist (Berg Women's Series) by Jennifer Lorch, 1990-10
  12. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Critics, 1788-2001 (Vol 1 & 2)
  13. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT ANNOT (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Todd, 1976-05-01
  14. Mary Wollstonecraft's Journey to Scandinavia: Essays (Stockholm Studies in English, 99)

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Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797), was the author of A Vindication ofthe Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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Mary (part I) Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her husband William Godwin was one of the most prominent atheists of his day.
The Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft
by
William Godwin (1798) - Part I
Chapter I

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT was born on the 27th of April 1759. Her father's name was Edward John, and the name of her mother Elizabeth, of the family of Dixons of Ballyshannon in the kingdom of Ireland: her paternal grandfather was a respectable manufacturer in Spitalfields, and is supposed to have left to his son a property of about 10,000l. Three of her brothers and two sisters are still living; their names, Edward, James, Charles, Eliza, and Everina. Of these, Edward only was older than herself; he resides in London. James is in Paris, and Charles in or near Philadelphia in America. Her sisters have for some years been engaged in the office of governesses in private families, and are both at present in Ireland.
I am doubtful whether the father of Mary was bred to any profession; but, about the time of her birth, he resorted, rather perhaps as an amusement than a business, to the occupation of farming. He was of a very active, and somewhat versatile disposition, and so frequently changed his abode, as to throw some ambiguity upon the place of her birth. She told me, that the doubt in her mind in that respect, lay between London, and a farm upon Epping Forest, which was the principal scene of the first five years of her life.

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43. Mary And Maria By Mary Wollstonecraft Matilda By Mary Shelley Published By Picke
Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) is generally recognised as the motherof the feminist movement. She expressed her ideas in her first
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Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft
Matilda by Mary Shelley
The Pickering Women's Classics Edited by Janet Todd This book brings together three extraordinary novels by an extraordinary pair, Mary Wollstonecraft - radical, feminist and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - and Mary Shelley, her daughter, author of Frankenstein . Although Mary Shelley never knew her mother who died giving birth to her, the concerns of the daughter in Matilda reflect upon the convictions of the mother in Mary and Maria - that women have the right to equality of education and opportunity, to fair treatment in marriage and under the law, and, most controversially, that women have a duty to themselves to reject the trappings and false allure of traditional definitions of femininity and embrace a richer, wider notion of womanhood. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is generally recognised as the mother of the feminist movement. She expressed her ideas in her first novel, Mary, a Fiction

44. UTEL: Mary Wollstonecraft Page
A "bio-bibliographical note." The link for "Vindication" will work only for Category Arts Literature Authors W Wollstonecraft, Mary......UTEL, Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797).
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  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • A Bio-bibliographical note about Mary Wollstonecraft
    "Reviled in her day as a 'hyena in petticoats', Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as one of the mothers of British and American feminism. In her most famous work, Vindication of the Rights of Woman , which was published in 1792 in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft applies radical principles of liberty and equality to sexual politics. Rights of Woman is a devastating critique of the 'false system of education' which she argues forced the middle-class women of her time to live within a stifling ideal of femininity: 'Taught from infancy that beauty is women's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage seeks only to adore its prison'. Instead, Wollenstonecraft dares to address women as 'rational creatures', and she urges them to aspire to a wider human ideal which combines feeling with reason and the right to independence. "Wollstonecraft's difficult, brave and tragically short life was itself a continual quest for financial, intellectual and sexual independence. Determined to make her own living, she initially endured the orthodox female occupations of paid companion and governess, but by the time she published

    45. ''Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin''
    Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Catherine Melo reviews Mary WollstonecraftGodwin 17591797. Related Links. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759-1797.
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    Catherine Melo reviews "Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 1759-1797. A Bibliography of the First and Early Editions with Briefer Notes on Later Editions and Translations" by John Windle
    This slim hardback bibliography, newly issued by Oak Knoll Press of Delaware U.S.A., is attractively bound in dark red linen with gold lettering and co-ordinating marbled end-papers. Printed on acid-free archival paper this attractive volume contains facsimiles of Mary Wollstonecraft's works and other illustrations including a colour plate depicting an engraving from 1798 by J. Chapman from an original painting of Mrs. Godwin herself.
    This second edition has been edited by Karma Pippin with every title mentioned in the bibliography re-collated against the original entry using the Internet. This apparently has resulted in substantial changes from the first edition in 1988.
    John Windle
    has used a wide range of references (including other recently revised texts) for this bibliography, although he gives Janet Todd's and Marilyn Butler's

    46. The Famous Feminist-Mary Wollstonecraft
    Mary Wollstonecraft. 17591797. Mary Wollstonecraft, a product of theEnlightenment, Romanticism , and the American and French Revolutions
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    Mary Wollstonecraft
    Mary Wollstonecraft , a product of the Enlightenment, Romanticism , and the American and French Revolutions, was born in the 1750's. She was the child of a marginal gentry farmer and an unloving mother. She began her protests of thecondition of women at an early age by protecting her mother from her father's abuse and resenting her brother's favored position. Mary was a passionate, generous, and demanding girl. Shedecided at an early age to be independent. This may not seem that shocking in today's society, but in her time period gentry women did notwork outside the home regardless of how poor they were. At the age of nineteen she took a position as a paid companion. At twenty-one she declared that she would never marry. She had witnessed her father's tyranny over her mother and did not desire the same for herself. Marriage gave the husband legal ownership of his wife, her property, and their children and a woman could not obtain a divorce. By being against marriage, she was far ahead of her time. The ultimate goal for women of the 1700's was a good marriage and children. Her first major act of social defiance was rescuing her sister, Eliza, from a miserable marriage even though Eliza had to leave her child behind. Mary realized that the only way to be truly free was to remain unmarried. Over the next seven years Mary worked as a governess. Unfortunately the work was frustrating for her because she was so intelligent and ambitious. Thus at the age of twenty-eight she wrote a semi-autobiographical novel

    47. My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Mary Shelley: Relatives
    her father William Godwin. her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797).Mary Wollstonecraft does not grow up in a very harmonious household.
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    Relatives Here you can find short biographies of people who played an important role in Mary Shelley's life:
    • her mother Mary Wollstonecraft
    • her father William Godwin
    • her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley
      Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Mary Wollstonecraft does not grow up in a very harmonious household. Her father is a heavy drinker and tyrannises her mother. As she witnesses and sometimes even tries to stop the abuse, it was perhaps inevitable that Mary would turn out to be one of the first feminists. At the age of 27, she writes her first article "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" in 1786. It does not take long for people to recognise her for her remarkable writing skills. Besides writing original works, she also writes reviews and does translations. In earlier works, Mary Wollstonecraft writes about "the disabilities and sufferings of the English lower classes" . But in her most famous works, Mary focuses more on the oppression of women. This is the central theme of her most famous work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman . Never before were the sufferings and indignities of women so passionately described. In writing this work, Mary "had found the cause she was to pursue for the rest of her life."

    48. OUP USA: Mary Wollstonecraft
    Mother of Women's Rights MIRIAM BRODY, Ithaca College Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)was the first champion of women's rights in the modern Western world.
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    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first champion of women's rights in the modern Western world. Wollstonecraft's experience teaching young women in London led her to write her first book, in which she argued for equal education for girls and boys. The moderate success of her autobiographical novel Mary, A Fiction convinced her to start writing full-time. Under the tutelage of her publisher and mentor Joseph Johnson, she joined a circle of liberal intellectuals which included poet and artist William Blake, chemist Joseph Priestley, and political thinker William Godwin. In 1790 Wollstonecraft penned A Vindication of the Rights of Men , an impassioned reply to conservative criticism of the French Revolution and a call for social equality. She developed her ideas further in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , which extended the notion of natural rights to include women's rights as well. Going so far as to suggest that women should be allowed to vote, Wollstonecraft's revolutionary ideas garnered her overnight fameand notoriety. She traveled to Paris, lived through the Reign of Terror, fell in love with an American, and gave birth to her first daughter. Though the love affair ended tragically, resulting in her thwarted suicide attempt, she happily wed William Godwin in 1797. That year she gave birth to her second child (the future author of

    49. GV1700 - Wollstonecraft
    Back. Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797). Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfieldsin London on April 27 th 1759. Her family moved frequently
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    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields in London on April 27 th 1759. Her family moved frequently around Britain, as her often violent father, a drunkard and a gambler, fled a succession of bankruptcies. Wollstonecraft did not attend school but was largely self-educated. In 1778, Wollstonecraft left home to work as a companion in Bath, but was called home to Enfield to nurse her dying Mother. In 1784, Wollstonecraft rescued her sister Eliza from her violent husband, and, together with best-friend Fanny Blood, they opened a school in Newington Green. Shortly after Blood died, the school failed. Wollstonecraft's first published work Thoughts on the Education of Daughters appeared at this time. To pay off her debt, and support her family, Wollstonecraft took a position as governess to the daughters of Lord Kingsborough, until dismissed in 1787. She was taken in by her London publisher, Joseph Johnson She continued publishing works on education and edited Johnson's Analytical Review In 1792, Wollstonecraft published the first reply to Burke in the debate on the

    50. Mary Wollstonecraft Biography
    A brief biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)Family. Occupations. Writing. Romance. Children.
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    51. Friendship Love Quotes Poems - Archived Mar, 1999
    Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman.
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    52. Mary Wollstonecraft
    Till Hjördis Levins hemsida. Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797). MaryWollstonecraft brukar kallas den första kvinnosakskvinnan .
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    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Mary Wollstonecraft brukar kallas "den första kvinnosakskvinnan". År 1793
    blev hon känd genom skriften " A Vindication of the Rights of Woman".
    oberoende.
    författarinna till romanen "Frankenstein".

    53. Primis -- Library Of The Future: Mary Wollstonecraft -- Updated 6/29/2001
    (17591797) — English author, often considered the first feminist, who was an Shedied shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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    54. Index Of /pub/english/English Literature/W/Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797)
    Parent Directory - Maria......Index of /pub/english/English Literature/W/Mary Wollstonecraft(17591797).Name Last modified Size
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    55. Mary Wollstonecraft
    by John Patrick Michael Murphy. Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) startedit allshe ignited the notion that women were the equals of men.
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    Library Modern Documents John Patrick Michael Murphy : Mary Wollstonecraft (1999)
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    Mary Wollstonecraft (1999)
    by John Patrick Michael Murphy
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) started it allshe ignited the notion that women were the equals of men. She was a revolutionary for women, when they were chattels. In her day women were barred from universities, professions, the vote, owning property, and had only the rights of those the law classified as an idiot. There were no custody battles in divorce cases as the men won them all because women could not own property (children), and the probate courts placed the husband in control of the wife's inheritance. It was all so consistent with the Bible that one could only deduce these were godly laws. Besides, the courts were not so crowded when only half the population could sue, be sued, or enter into a contract. In her brief life she would attempt to change all that by becoming the grandmother of the movement to free her sex from the dogmas and traditions and laws grounded to "our barbaric past."

    56. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman / By Mary Wollstonecraft
    Wollstonecraft, Mary, 17591797 . A vindication of the rights of woman/ by Mary Wollstonecraft Electronic Text Center, University
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    Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 . A vindication of the rights of woman / by Mary Wollstonecraft
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    The entire work
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  • Prologue Advertisement.
  • Chapter 1 The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered.
  • Chapter 2 The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed.
  • Chapter 3 The Same Subject Continued.
  • Chapter 4 Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes.
  • Chapter 5 Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
  • Chapter 6 The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character.
  • Chapter 7 Modesty.- Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue.
  • Chapter 8 Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation.
  • Chapter 9 Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society.
  • 57. Press Release
    Wollstonecraft Divided into two sections, the exhibition is organized chronologicallythe first section focuses on Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797) and the
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    Press Release
    Exhibition on Mother and Daughter Authors Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley Opens May 3
    On the 200th anniversary of the death and birth, respectively, of writers Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, The New York Public Library is mounting an exhibition about two complicated and creative women who forged independent lives through their work. Visionary Daughters of Albion: A Bicentenary Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley will display their writings and those of the most important people in their literary circles, including early editions, manuscripts, correspondence, and a number of portraits and prints. The exhibition opens May 3 in The Edna Barnes Salomon Room at The New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and will remain on view through September 13, 1997. In the summer of 1797, Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), died shortly after giving birth to the future Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818) and wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The more than 350 items on display in Visionary Daughters of Albion are drawn mostly from the Library's Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, one of the world's leading repositories for the study of English Romanticism.

    58. 18th Century
    Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) (17591797) Maria or The Wrongs of Woman Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft Listserv.
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    59. Mary Wollstonecraft
    Mary Wollstonecraft. 17591797. Mary Wollstonecraft, a late eighteenthcentury feminist psychologist, died at thirty-eight years of
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft , a late eighteenth century feminist psychologist, died at thirty-eight years of age after giving birth to a famous daughter. Her social activism for the equality of women influenced her psychological studies. Wollstonecraft developed a very sophisticated view of the relationship between emotion and reason. During the eighteenth century the psychological process of emotion was seen as a disturbance and weakness of the human mind. Mary Wollstonecraft proposed that emotions could provide a point of view on a situation that supplemented the point of view given to us by reason alone. She conceded to the notion that women were more influenced by emotions than men but that this sensibility did not vindicate keeping them uneducated or unequal. In 1792 she wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women, advocating equality of the sexes. She died in London, the city of her birth in 1797. Her daughter, Mary Shelley, enhanced the literary world by writing Frankenstein.
    Bibliography
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    60. Leaders Of The Early Women's Movement: Women's History
    Wollstonecraft, Mary (17591797). Mary Wollstonecraft, a British author, wasbest known for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Stanton Lucy Stone ... Paulina Davis Some Leaders of the Early Women's Movement
    One of the first
    and most important advocates of women's equality was the English author Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote in the late 1700's. In the United States, other women advocated women's equality throughout the 1800's by working for the right to vote, own property, and obtain the same education as men. Library of Congress photos Capitol Statue of some leaders of the early women's movement.
    Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
    Mary Wollstonecraft, a British author,
    was best known for her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). This book was one of the first to claim that women should have equality with men. Wollstonecraft said that men considered women morally and mentally inferior to themselves. She argued that women could live happy, creative lives if they had better educational opportunities. She based her book on the democratic principles of the French Revolution (1789-1799) and on her own experiences. Wollstonecraft was born in London. She educated herself by studying books at home. For a brief period, she and her sisters ran a school. From this experience, she wrote

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