Mary Wollstonecraft




 

Mary Wollstonecraft

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born
April 27, 1759

died
September 10, 1797

gender
female

place of birth
United Kingdom


about this author

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.

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 ...more




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avg rating: 3.82 | 1075 ratings | 34 distinct works
A Vindication of the Rights of... A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Miriam Brody
avg rating 3.96 — 413 ratings — published 1988
39 editions
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Mary / The Wrongs of Women Mary / The Wrongs of Women (Paperback)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
avg rating 3.53 — 50 ratings — published 1999
12 editions
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A Vindication of the Rights of... A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Paperback)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (Editor)
avg rating 3.84 — 31 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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Mary; Maria; Matilda Mary; Maria; Matilda (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley
avg rating 3.37 — 20 ratings — published 1788
5 editions
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Short Residence in Sweden, Nor... Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark and Memoirs of the Author (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1987
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A Vindication of the Rights of... A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, (Longman Cultural Editions)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne K. Mellor, Noelle Chao
avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2006
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A Vindication of the Rights of... A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/the Subjection of Women/2 Books in 1 (Everyman's Library (Paper))
by Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1992
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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication... Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Man and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (Editor)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1995
2 editions
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The Collected Letters of Mary... The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Wollstonecraft
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2004
4 editions
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The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria... The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Eighteenth Century Literature) (Eighteenth Century Literature)
by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
avg rating 3.33 — 4 ratings — published 1999
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quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

"It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men."
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"If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex."
Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Editions))
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"If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex."
Mary Wollstonecraft
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