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The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence – Carl Lotus Becker In this long essay Becker analyzed the structure, drafting, and philosophy of the Declaration. He recognizes that it was not intended as an objective historical statement of the causes of the Revolution, but merely furnished a moral and legal justification for rebellion. Step by step, the colonists […]
Maria or the Wrongs of Woman
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 […]
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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 […]
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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 […]
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
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, […]
Original Stories from Real Life
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 […]
Mary, a Fiction
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. Format: […]
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
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 […]
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt
A Confederate Soldier in Egypt – William Wing Loring General Loring was one of many Confederate officers who after the close of the War of the Rebellion offered their services to foreign rulers. A number of these officers took their way to Egypt, and the author of this book was one of the most successful […]
The City of the Caliphs
The City of the Caliphs – Eustace Alfred Reynolds Ball Cairo has for centuries been the home of Oriental magnificence and despotism, and still, though fallen from its high estate, it ranks as one of the most typical and picturesque—as well as the wickedest — of Mohammedan cities, while its mingling of Oriental luxury and […]