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Mary Wollstonecraft : a revolutionary life / Janet Todd.

By: Series: Lives in lettersPublisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000Description: 516 p., [8] pages. of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0297842994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.4092 23
Review: "Mary Wollstonecraft was the first major feminist in England, author of the pioneering Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. This biography argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy; it expands her own view of herself as one of 'those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in' and to throw off 'prejudices', by 'the force of their own mind'." "Wollstonecraft insists on our attention to her life, extraordinarily scandalous in conventional terms - a close involvement with a woman, two male lovers, an illegitimate child and a habit of initiating amorous relationships; yet, in her own terms always principled and highly moral, always 'chaste'. She wanted to reconcile integrity and sexual desire, the needs and duties of a woman, motherhood and intellectual life, fame and domesticity. Her dilemmas, still current ones, are caught in the remarkably frank and personal letters which she wrote all her life, as child, daughter, companion, friend, teacher, governess, sister, literary hack, woman of letters, lover and wife."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 305.4092 WOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68324

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-505) and index.

"Mary Wollstonecraft was the first major feminist in England, author of the pioneering Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. This biography argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy; it expands her own view of herself as one of 'those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in' and to throw off 'prejudices', by 'the force of their own mind'." "Wollstonecraft insists on our attention to her life, extraordinarily scandalous in conventional terms - a close involvement with a woman, two male lovers, an illegitimate child and a habit of initiating amorous relationships; yet, in her own terms always principled and highly moral, always 'chaste'. She wanted to reconcile integrity and sexual desire, the needs and duties of a woman, motherhood and intellectual life, fame and domesticity. Her dilemmas, still current ones, are caught in the remarkably frank and personal letters which she wrote all her life, as child, daughter, companion, friend, teacher, governess, sister, literary hack, woman of letters, lover and wife."--BOOK JACKET.

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