I downloaded your memoir and other works from Project Guttenberg and hope to get to reading them soonest, my lazy butt be damned.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. A small annoyance but for my lazy butt it's enough to drop the book. I found them very interesting and relatable - really, hasn't life changed at all during the past 300 years or so? - but the epub is broken and resets to the first chapter when I open it. I can imagine you tutting and shaking your head at everyone involved: the artist, the jury, and also the editor of this book who doesn't see a problem in depicting you, such an exceptional historic figure, as a naked "every-woman".
I hope you get that better monument of yourself soon. Thank you and please forgive me that I am not in awe of the creative side of yours.
Exceptional thinker, yes, and you have laid the grounds to the modern feminist movement, and for this you will be always remembered. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.Īfter Wollstonecraft's death, Godwin published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for a century. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.ĭuring her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal relationships.
Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist.
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