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Maria or the Wrongs of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

“Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman” is an unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. The book is widely considered to be her most radical feminist work. “Maria” is a philosophical as well as a gothic novel that revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband.

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

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Maria or the Wrongs of Woman.

ISBN: 9783849680886

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (from Wikipedia):

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark – Mary Wollstonecraft

Like every word she wrote, Wollstonecraft’s letters are full of personal revelations and wise thoughts. They are doubly interesting because can trace the intimate thought which lay beneath the public statement. One could pick out of this book enough epigrams to make a motto calendar. “Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness.” “There is always a mixture of sentiment and imagination in voluptuousness ” might have been written as a partial apology for the wayward Imlay. She relates her interview with the Prime Minister of Denmark, and sums him up as being “more anxious not to do … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

No feminism or feminist philosophy without “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Wollstonecraft argues not only that women ought to have the education of a woman should fit her position and role in society, but also that they are human beings and thus deserve the same fundamental rights as men.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

ISBN: 9783849681050

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (from Wikipedia):

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

A Vindication of the Rights of Men – Mary Wollstonecraft

In 1790 came that “extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence,” Mary Wollstonecraft’s reply to Edmund Burke’s attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a “Vindication of the Rights of Men.” In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke’s defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. “It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language,” Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, “and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Original Stories from Real Life – Mary Wollstonecraft

This book was written while Wollstonecraft’s experience as school-mistress and governess was still fresh in her memory. As she explained in the preface, her object was to make up, in some measure, for the defective education or moral training which, as a rule, children in those days received from their parents. In addressing a youthful audience, Mary was as deeply inspired by her love of goodness, per se, and her detestation of conventional conceptions of virtue, as she was afterwards in appealing to older readers. She represents, in her book, two little girls, aged respectively twelve and fourteen, who have been sadly neglected during their early years, but fall, fortunately, at this … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Mary, a Fiction – Mary Wollstonecraft

“Mary, A Fiction” is the only complete novel that Mary Wollstonecraft has ever written. She tells the tragic story of a heroine’s successive “romantic friendships” with a woman and a man. “Emile”, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical treatise on education, was one of the major literary influences on this book.

Mary, a Fiction

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Mary, a Fiction.

ISBN: 9783849681029

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft (from Wikipedia):

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters – Mary Wollstonecraft

The pamphlet consists of a number of short treatises, indicating certain laws and principles which Mary thought needed to be more generally understood and more firmly established. Many passages show that as early as 1787 she had seriously considered the problems which, in 1791, she attempted to solve. She was even then perplexed by the unfortunate situation of women of the upper classes who, having received but the pretence of an education, eventually become dependent on their own exertions. Her sad experience probably led her to these thoughts. Reflection upon them made her the champion of her sex.

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

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