Mary wollstonecraft

The Gay 100: Mary Wollstonecraft, page 42

I’m driving across the rolling Palouse of eastern Washington, colored by wheat and summer sky, just me in the car, and the voice of actor Dan Stevens reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. “Oh, that’…

I can’t quite remember what brought up William Blake, or the poem known as “Jerusalem.” But suddenly, I was brought back to the Hubert Parry anthem setting of this poem....

Mary Wollstonecraft believed that experience shaped thought and development and her own early life shaped her ideas about women's and human rights.

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner…

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Mary Wollstonecraft by Cat Clark Early British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a revolutionary thinker who sought to become “the first of a new genus,” a new kind of woman…

Mary Wollstonecraft: 1759-1797 English author and feminist

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