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Mary Wollstonecraft

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born
in London, The United Kingdom
April 27, 1759

died
September 10, 1797

gender
female

genre
Politics, Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies


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Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal relationships. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement; they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.

During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of...more


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Mary Wollstonecraft's Books

Average rating: 3.76 · 6,194 ratings · 253 reviews · 43 distinct works · Similar authors
A Vindication of the Rights...
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 4,950 ratings — published 1792 — 110 editions
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Mary & The Wrongs of Woman ...
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3.37 of 5 stars 3.37 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1798 — 26 editions
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Letters Written During a Sh...
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1796 — 36 editions
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Short Residence in Sweden, ...
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3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1987
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Mary & Maria & Matilda (3 i...
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The Collected Letters Of Ma...
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions
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“The beginning is always today.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft
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“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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