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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Biography

Name: Mary Wollstonecraft
Birth Date: 1759
Death Date: - 1797

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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft
14,077 words, approx. 47 pages
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...
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft
4,954 words, approx. 17 pages
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...
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Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft
4,900 words, approx. 16 pages
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...
 


Quotations
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Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Mary Wollstonecraft ( 27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797 ) was an English social philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights; wife of William Godwin , and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 A Vindication of the...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Wollstonecraft, Mary (1757–1797) Summary
803 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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Wollstonecraft, Mary Summary
14,157 words, approx. 47 pages
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...
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Mary Wollstonecraft Information
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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...


News and Journals
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Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Wollstonecraft's thoughts on slavery and corruption.(Mary Wollstonecraft )
03/22/2004: 12,501 words, approx. 42 pages
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...
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The Modern Language Review
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
07/01/2005: 678 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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AP News
Today in history - Aug. 30
8/30/2007: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Karen Hust
10,490 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following essay, Hust examines Mary Wollstonecraft's perception of nature in her travel writings about Scandinavia's rugged and rocky coasts.
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Critical Essay by Shawn Lisa Maurer
10,193 words, approx. 34 pages
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."
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Critical Essay by Himani Bannerji
10,085 words, approx. 34 pages
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.
 
Featured Essays
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Essay is an autobiography of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft that is written in the style of first person.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Women Education
1,156 words, approx. 4 pages
This essay addresses the stereoypes women had to go through in earlier time periods. Reference is made to Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Women and Education
1,156 words, approx. 4 pages
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.
 


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