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| | Mary Wollstonecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Arguably Mary Wollstonecraft's greatest posthumous work was her daughter, known to history as Mary Shelley. | | | "Mary Wollstonecraft on Education." The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft. | | | Virginia Woolf, in 1929, described Mary Wollstonecraft saying that, "she is alive and active, she argues and experiments, we hear her voice and trace her influence even now among the living" (Kaplan, 246). |
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| | Mary Shelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mary consoled herself with her studies and with Percy, who would always be, despite disillusionment and tragedy, the love of her life. | | | Frankenstein is also full of references to her mother, Mary Wolstonecraft, and her major work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman which discusses the lack of equal education for males and females. | | | Mary was tireless in promoting her late husband's work, including editing and annotating unpublished material. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 |
| | Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind's present circumstances and ultimate perfection. | | | She was truly a child of the French Revolution and saw a new age of reason and benevolence close at hand. | | | This work alone sufficed to damn Mary in the eyes of critics throughout the following century. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/wollstonecraft.html
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| | Mary Shelley Biography |
| | By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published. | | | Mary tried to obey her father's injunction, but Percy's attempted suicide soon convinced Mary of the strength of his love, and on 28 July 1814 she fled with him to France, accompanied by Jane Clairmont. | | | As Percy's poem "To Mary" suggests, Mary had become cold and withdrawn by late 1819, but she was not insensitive to the pain she was inflicting on him. |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/shelleybio.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | That was the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, thirty years old, in 1789, the year of the Fall of the Bastille; the noble life now to be touched in its enthusiasms by the spirit of the French Revolution, to be caught in the great storm, shattered, and lost among its wrecks. | | | Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797) was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. | | | The publisher of Mary Wollstonecraft's Thoughts on the Education of Daughters was the same Joseph Johnson who in 1785 was the publisher of Cowper's Task. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/M/MA/MAR/Mary_Wollstonecraft
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| | Mary was 18 when she wrote Frankenstein, Gothic progeny, so one story goes, of a particularly weird evening in which, after reading Coleridge's Christabel, Shelley became convinced that Mary's nipples were eyes and had to be visited by a doctor. | | | Coleridge, whom Mary sometimes met in later years, recited his ''Rime of the Ancient Mariner'' one evening, with Mary ''hiding behind a sofa when she should have been in bed.'' The poem's icebound sea, its hero stalked by ''a frightful fiend,'' were remembered in ''Frankenstein.'' In 1812, Percy Bysshe Shelley came into Godwin's circle. | | | Their relationship foundered when Mary learned, first that without confiding in her at all, Jane had married Thomas Jefferson Hogg, by whom she was pregnant, and then that she had spread ugly tales about the unhappy marriage of Percy and Mary Shelley, and how greatly Mary's coldness had been to blame. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | Taylor states that this book is “a study of Mary Wollstonecraft’s radical imagination, particularly her feminist imaginings.” This book can be difficult to read without prior knowledge of feminism and the history of Britain in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. | | | "Trembling: Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and the resistance to literature." EHL 64 (1997): 761-88. | | | It also illustrates Mary's unconventional existence, and the actions for which many of her time would have condemned her. |
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http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marywoll.html
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft on education |
| | As is well known, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was later to marry the poet Shelley and as Mary Shelley, became famous as the author of the great gothic novel Frankenstein. | | | For Mary Wollstonecraft, rationality or reason formed the basis of our human rights as it was our ability to grasp truth and therefore acquire knowledge of right and wrong that separated us, as human beings, from the animal world. | | | In 1786, Mary wrote a short tract entitled Thoughts on the Education of Daughters but it was the advent of the French Revolution in 1789 that brought Mary into the public eye. |
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http://www.infed.org/thinkers/wollstonecraft.htm
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| | The Life of Mary Shelley |
| | She was the only child of Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist, and William Godwin, a philosopher and novelist. | | | Godwin taught Mary to read and spell her name by having her trace her mother's inscription on the stone. | | | This was the same scientific technology that she had warned against in her most famous book, Frankenstein. |
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| | BBC - History - Mary Wollstonecraft: A 'Speculative and Dissenting Spirit' |
| | Unhappy with her situation, Mary was sustained by a dream of life alone with her beloved friend Fanny Blood, and by a strenuous piety that allowed her to believe in a blissful afterlife, to compensate for her present misery. | | | Wollstonecraft, however, was determined to change this and to add a dissenting female voice to the chorus debating political emancipation. | | | When Mary encountered the inevitable criticism for this behaviour, she gave a robust reply: 'I knew I should be the... |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/protest_reform/wollstonecraft_01.shtml
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft @ Catharton Authors |
| | Wollstonecraft's second daughter Mary survived however, and eventually married a poet named Percy Shelley, and as Mary Shelley she went on to write 'Frankenstein'. | | | Wollstonecraft replied to this almost immediately in 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Man', and a more famous counter attack was later made by Thomas Paine in his similarly titled 'Rights Of Man' books in 1791 and 1792. | | | Poor Fanny Imlay, Wollstonecraft's first daughter, was adopted by William Godwin, but she was an unhappy woman and at the age of 23 she booked into a hotel in Swansea and poisoned herself. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft (later Godwin) |
| | Wollstonecraft, Mary (ed.), The Female Reader, or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse; Selected from the Best Writers, and Disposed under Proper Heads (1789). | | | A Vindication of the Rights of Men shows Wollstonecraft using the political philosophy of Price, Burgh and the eighteenth-century Commonwealthmen to assert her belief in the progress of society, and the natural rights of man based on the God-given gift of reason. | | | Thoughts is typical of conduct books written by the more liberal women writers of the period, though there are incipient feminist touches, such as its insistence that virtue consists of active struggle rather than mere passive obedience, and a grim survey of the lack of employment for unmarried women. |
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http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/wollstone.htm
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| | Mary |
| | Mary also thought that more education for women was important because it would help strengthen the marriage relationship because a woman needs to have equal knowledge as the man to be able to maintain the the partnership. | | | Another observation Mary had was that women were idolized by men and because of this, they were not looked at as equal. | | | Another flaw that Mary saw with women’s education is that men wrote the books which women used to study. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | A third-person account of a woman dissatisfied with her arranged marriage and overcome with affection for another man, Mary's story admits of only one outcome--her death from a fever after she accepts the hopelessness of her life. | | | This final comment on the status of women tantalizes with its hints of the possible direction of Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist thinking had she survived the medical practices of her day. | | | From this first principle, she ridicules the contemporary gender construction of females as weak and modest, attractive and shallow playthings for men, reinforced by an education based in sentiment and focused on luring a suitable mate, however deceptively. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Review Review: Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon |
| | But success was also possible: Mary Godwin became Mary Shelley, the wife of the poet and the author of Frankenstein, a groundbreaking writer in her own right who had all Wollstonecraft's passionate attachment to emotional integrity: "The most contemptible of all lives is where you live in the world and none of your passions... | | | Obviously it adds to our understanding of Wollstonecraft's character if we remember that the journey which resulted in her moving travel book about Scandinavia was not undertaken as some kind of romantic excursion. | | | Perhaps Gordon could have written more about the intellectual legacy of Wollstonecraft's work, which is rather skimped on beside this complex exploration of her personal influence on particular descendants. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1405315,00.html
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| | My Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - Mary Shelley: Relatives |
| | Six months after their marriage, Mary gives birth to her second daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. | | | It was only in the 20th century that Mary Wollstonecraft's writings become recognised as classic works, not only dealing with women's issues but also critiquing the prevailing social circumstances. | | | As she witnesses and sometimes even tries to stop the abuse, it was perhaps inevitable that Mary would turn out to be one of the first feminists. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) |
| | Wollstonecraft is called home to be with her failing mother. | | | Wollstonecraft completes and publishes her translation of Salzmann's Elements..., writes A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on The Revolution In France. | | | Wollstonecraft meets Francis (Fanny) Blood, who became her closest friend and companion until Blood's death. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/wollstonecraft.html
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft makes no mention of this book and probably never read it, but she would make the right assumptions about the likelihood of Sophie's fidelity. | | | Admiring his sentiment, Mary Wollstonecraft applauded Rousseau's scheme for Emile but deplored the neglect of Emile's perfect wife, Sophie. | | | This is exactly the cause which Mary Wollstonecraft takes up. |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/english016/franken/sophie.txt
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | In Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft argued that the rights of man which she had previously espoused applied equally and unconditionally to women as a just God could not have created one human being superior to another. | | | She often had to protect her mother from the drunken rage of her father, the son of a master weaver from London who tried unsucessfully to set himself up as a gentleman farmer. | | | She envisioned a society in which women could be educated and work alongside men as co-equals in every pursuit. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) |
| | Although it would be shaken when some Girondin friends were guillotined in France, Wollstonecraft had a rather positive view of human nature, like Rousseau, but she believed that God plans for some evils to encourage our dev elopment of reasoning powers in making improvements in our world. | | | Women are not put on earth merely "to procreate and rot," she says in her very memorable phrase. | | | When dismissed as a governess, she turned for a time to school teaching, but really wanted to make a living by writing and publishing books, something which first looked possible when books reached larger audiences, because of lower costs. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft; A Revolutionary Life; Janet Todd |
| | With Mary Wollstonecraft and her A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792, a modern female consciousness came clearly into being, one that tied the mind to the body. | | | Janet Todd is alert to Mary Wollstonecraft's contradictions, but fascinated by her energies. | | | "Todd tells the story of Mary Wollstonecraft’s extraordinary life with calm judiciousness, an excellent sense of the social, intellectual, and economic spheres in which her subject lived and wrote, and a good eye for small but telling details." |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | Although Mary was brought up as an Anglican, she soon be | | | impressed by Mary's ideas on education and commissioned her to write a book on the subject. | | | The doctor's attempt to remove the placenta resulted in blood poisoning and Mary died on 10th September, 1797. |
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| | The Literary Gothic Mary Shelley |
| | As if this weren't enough, Mary Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, had a relationship (not quite a sexual affair, apparently, to Wollstonecraft's disappointment) with Henri Fuseli, a fact which Mary Shelley knew. | | | Relatively few people know that the Frankenstein they read is actually Mary Shelley's revised version of her novel, which provides the text used in most mass market editions. | | | The famous painting (or one version of it; Fuseli painted it twice) that inspired the description of Elizabeth's dead body flung across her bridal bed just after her murder by the creature (in Chapter 23 of Frankenstein). |
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| | Amazon.com: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | Mary discusses how women are to be kept ignorant of all knowledge and only to be valued for their physical charms (almost every ad on TV/in print). | | | Although the position of woman in the society do not correspond exactly to the one described by Wollstonecraft, there are definitely twentieth century contemporaries to the methods used to subjugate woman 200 years ago. | | | Vindication : A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon |
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| | LibertyGuide.com - Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | An early Anglo-Irish feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft is most famous for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | | | Although she considered marriage a form of tyranny, she wed William Godwin in 1797 due to her pregnancy. | | | which Wollstonecraft took to be Burke's betrayal of his previous defense of the American Revolution. |
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| | mwshelley |
| | But when Victor considers the "race of demons" that might populate the world if he goes through with his plan to create a female companion for the "wretch," he clearly places monster reproductive biology at the center of his own anxieties. | | | When asked to explain why he has created a monstrous life form (one that would eventually destroy him), Mary's Victor Frankenstein offers an explanation based on the concept of "species." "A new species would bless me as its creator," he says to Captain Walton in the opening pages of the novel. | | | ary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the author of one of the most widely read and often redacted novels of the past two centuries. |
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| | Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | She married William Godwin in 1797 and died giving birth to a daughter, Mary (later Mary Shelley). | | | Owing to her father's thriftlessness, she had to earn her living by teaching, and then worked for Johnson, the publisher, as reader and translator. | | | She was a member of a group of radical intellectuals called the English Jacobins. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Godwin,+Mary+Wollstonecraft
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| | Mary Shelley |
| | Mary was the wife of the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and published an edition of his works in 1839. | | | Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London, England on August 30, 1797; the daughter of the philosopher, William Godwin. | | | Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, one of the greatest horror novels of all time. |
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| | UTEL: Mary Wollstonecraft Page |
| | "Reviled in her day as a 'hyena in petticoats', Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as one of the mothers of British and American feminism. | | | Wollstonecraft's political opponents seized gleefully on the details of her unorthodox personal life, and condemned her as an 'unsex'd female'. | | | Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever eight days after the birth of her second daughter, the future Mary Shelley. |
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| | MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY - LoveToKnow Article on MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY |
| | For the history of her girlhood and of her married life see GoDwIN, WILLIAM, and SHELLEY, P.B. When she was in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron in 1816 a proposal was made that various members of the party should write a romance or tale dealing with the supernatural. | | | (1797-1851), English writer, only daughter of William Godwin and his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, and second wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, was born in London on the 3oth of August 1797. | | | To properly cite this MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY article in your work, copy the complete reference below: |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | The copy exhibited is the second American edition, published in the same year as Johnson's London edition and the first American edition, which was printed in Philadelphia by William Gibbons. | | | Later, she met and married the political philosopher, William Godwin, but died soon after giving birth to their daughter, Mary, who later married the poet Shelley and became famous as the author of Frankenstein. | | | During this time she also wrote children's stories, a novel and some translations, and in 1792 Johnson published her now famous Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley |
| | Your own Mary who loves you so tenderly 5 | | | [after their July elopement, Mary's father refused to see her or Percy--though he continued to borrow money from him] | | | [note: Mary Godwin was born 30 August 1797] |
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| | Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) |
| | She wrote in a variety of genres including letters, essays, poems, novels, and non-fiction books. | | | In Vindication Wollstonecraft applied the language of the French Revolution to women, scorned the frivilous training of women common in her time, and advocated a real education for women. | | | Probably the best known woman who will be discussed in this series, Wollstonecraft wrote on a variety of issues in addition to the rights, wrongs, and education of women including politics, morality, ethics, religion, the care of infants, a travelogue of her trip to Sweden, and the French revolution. |
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| | EpistemeLinks: Website results for philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft |
| | Description: Contains articles about Wollstonecraft's life and the social context of her major work. | | | Description: Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft with links to online texts of "The Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and "Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman". | | | Get expert help for your Job Resumes, Admissions Essays, and Term Papers. |
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