Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century British philosopher and writer known for her feminist views and famous text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She also wrote on various subjects and had an unconventional lifestyle. Her reputation was tarnished by a posthumously published memoir, but she regained respect during the feminist movement and is now credited as a founder of feminist philosophy. She wrote numerous works, including novels and essays.
Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century British philosopher and writer, was born on April 18, 27. She is particularly known for her feminist views and tracts. However, she has penned books and essays on a wide variety of subjects including travel stories, treatises, history, and manners. She has also written novels and a children’s book. Without a doubt, her most famous text is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1759. In this text, Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear so only because of their inferior social status and fact that they have received less education than men.
Wollstonecraft is known for both her lyrics and her lifestyle, which was very unconventional for a woman of her era. Only after having two affairs, one with Henry Fuseli and the other with Gilbert Imlay, did Wollstonecraft marry. With her husband, William Godwin, she had a daughter, Mary Shelley. Shelley is probably more famous than her infamous mother for her novel Frankenstein. Mary Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight. Her death on 10 September 1797 was due to complications of childbirth.
Upon his early death, Wollstonecraft left behind a number of unfinished manuscripts. Her husband posthumously published her memoir the year after her death. This memoir detailed much information about her lifestyle that was both unorthodox and completely unacceptable during her time. Indeed, it was this memoir that badly tarnished Wollstonecraft’s reputation. She didn’t regain respect until the early 20th century, during the beginnings of the feminist movement. Despite being mocked for nearly a century for her actions in her personal life, Wollstonecraft gained a new audience and followed the feminist movement. She is now credited as one of the founders of feminist philosophy.
Below is a list of works by the author, published both during his lifetime and posthumously. In addition to the texts listed below, Mary Wollstonecraft has also translated numerous books during her short but prolific career.
Thoughts on the education of daughters: with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life
Mary: a fiction
Original stories of real life: with conversations calculated to regulate affections and train the mind to truth and good.
The female reader: or, miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse; chosen from the best writers, and arranged under their own heads; for the betterment of young women
A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Honorable Edmund Burke.London
A claim of women’s rights with restrictions in moral and political matters
A historical and moral vision of the French Revolution; and the effect it produced in Europe
Letters written during a short stay in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
The wrongs of the woman, oh Mary. Posthumous works by the author of A Vindication of Women’s Rights
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