PREFACE
The public are here presented with the last
literary attempt of an author, whose fame has been
uncommonly extensive, and whose talents have probably
been most admired, by the persons by whom t...
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Although Mary Godwin is a significant literary figure in her own right, the following essay focuses on the literary collaboration of Godwin and her husband William Godwin.William Godwin and his second...
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Biography EssayMary Wollstonecraft's literary and political reputation as one of the most important voices at the center of British feminism has never been more secure. Her early reviewing and educati...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's main claim to the attention of posterity rests on her radical critique of patriarchal rule, in its public and private forms, in the England of her day. She gained contemporary fa...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's achievement as a prose writer is twofold. She was the most notable arguer for women's equality in her time. She also explored new ways of arguing for such equality as a woman in ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft deserves recognition as an important British reform writer for her vigorous agitation for political and social improvement during the 1780s and 1790s. She used her works to explore...
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Mary Wollstonecraft is the most famous feminist of the eighteenth century. Her writings provided an inspiration for later feminist movements and became particularly popular with second-wave feminism i...
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Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman
Mary Jane Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft