Mary 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 educational writing did not gain her a wide audience, but with the...

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 domains and discourses dominated by men. She looked...

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 in the 1960s. She earned her own living as a paid...

Wollstonecraft, Mary(1757 and the Effect It Has Produced in Europe (1794). Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796). Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (post.). Works on Wollstonecraft Poovey, M. The Proper Lady and the...

Wollstonecraft has been labelled by several scholars as one of the founders of modern feminism. Resembling other progressive figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment era, Wollstonecraft supported both political and social freedom in her polemic...

Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of...

Although Mary Wollstonecraft appears to have thought about slavery nearly as much as she thought about rights and duties, the body of scholarship on her idea of slavery is slight. Despite the recent proliferation of books and articles on her work the only...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. By BARBARA TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xvi+331 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $23). ISBN 0-521-66144-7 (pbk 0-521-00417-9). The title of this superb...

Today is Thursday, Aug. 30, the 242nd day of 2007. There are 123 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Ten years ago, on Aug. 30, 1997, came reports of the car crash in Paris that claimed the lives of Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed and...

In the following essay, Hust examines Mary Wollstonecraft's perception of nature in her travel writings about Scandinavia's rugged and rocky coasts.

In the following essay, Maurer contends that, in her fiction, Wollstonecraft attempts to develop an active subjectivity for women "that is constituted in direct relation to a woman's role as mother."

In the essay that follows, Bannerji notes the ambivalence of contemporary feminist theorists toward Wollstonecraft and attempts, nonetheless, to claim that A Vindication of the Rights of Woman provides a promising philosophical resource for current feminist discourse.

Essay is an autobiography of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft that is written in the style of first person.

This essay addresses the stereoypes women had to go through in earlier time periods. Reference is made to Mary Wollstonecraft.

Discusses the classical works of several female writers. Describes the treatment of women during that time compared to the treatment of men. References the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Laura Cereta.