Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759 - 1797)
English essayist and novelist.
Mary Wollstonecraft: Introduction
Mary Wollstonecraft: Principal Works
Mary Wollstonecraft: Primary Sources
Mary Wollstonecraft: Genera...
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Wollstonecraft, Mary(1757–1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft has long been recognized as one of the most influential feminist theorists in history, largely through her Vindication of the Rights of Woman...
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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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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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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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In the following essay, Hust examines Mary Wollstonecraft's perception of nature in her travel writings about Scandinavia's rugged and rocky coasts.
The landscape [or representation of a...
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In the following essay, Harasym examines the autobiographical novel The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria, contending that Wollstonecraft's identification of herself with her protagonist complicated h...
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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 rol...
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In the essay that follows, Barlowe examines Wollstonecraft's use of different genres as an effort to engage in dialogue with the male-dominated intellectual tradition, in the larger service of ...
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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 provide...
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In the following essay, Shanley explores Wollstonecraft's discussion of the relationship between domestic and political patriarchy.
One of the results of the resurgence in feminist scholarship ...
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Hello, my name is Mary Wollstonecraft. I am considered the first modern feminist. I accomplished many goals in my lifetime even though I only lived to the age of thirty- eight. My family accidentally ...
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Is knowledge naturally possessed or is it bestowed upon one by sheer luck? In the eighteenth century men seemed to think that woman were inferior to them therefore denied the right to be educated. As...
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Thomas Paine was an activist for many causes throughout his lifetime including the abolition of slavery, government rule by democracy rather than a monarchy, and in later years about what he believed ...
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Is knowledge naturally possessed or is it bestowed upon one by sheer luck? In the eighteenth century men seemed to think that woman were inferior to them therefore denied the right to be educated. As...
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Wollstonecraft, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1757–1797)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Jane Godwin
