Bibliography
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786)
Mary, A Fiction (1788)
Original Stories from Real Life (1788)
The Female Reader (1789)
A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794)
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786)
Mary, A Fiction (1788)
Original Stories from Real Life (1788)
The Female Reader (1789)
A Vindication of the Rights of Man (1790)
A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794)
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27th 1759 in London, England during the Enlightenment period where intellects like Wollstonecraft questioned the authorial society they lived in, thus advocating for improvements to the condition. She has "applied Enlightenment principles of natural law, liberty and equality to forge a radical rethinking of the roles and responsibilities of women in Western society" (Fiero, 147,148). Her most notable piece of literature in which she was famous and infamous for was "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" in which she criticized men for oppressing women as childlike and fragile and argued that both genders should be getting the same knowledge and education so that they could be in the same equality. In addition, she argues that women did not tended to their wits and would attempt seduce men and always being dependent. Outside her literature and feminist career, Wollstonecraft had been "deeply conflicted by her own personal efforts to reconcile her sexual passions, her need for independence and her free-spirited will" (Fiero, 148). She had a couple relationship with other men, one of them whom she would end up marrying to, novelist and philosopher, William Godwin. Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelly (later grown up to write the Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein) with Godwin, Wollstonecraft died on September 10th 1797 at the age of thirty-eight from placental infection. However, her legacy in her work still lives years later in which women obtained the same rights and opportunities like men do.
Mary Wollstonecraft's work available to purchase below.
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Universe of The Arts II
Created March 28th 2019
Works Cited:
Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition Volume 2, 2015, McGraw Hill Eduacation, p.p 147-148, Print
Universe of The Arts II
Created March 28th 2019
Works Cited:
Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition Volume 2, 2015, McGraw Hill Eduacation, p.p 147-148, Print