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    Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
    Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
    Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
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    Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

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    Mary Wollstonecraft was a British author, philosopher, and advocate of women s rights. Raised by an abusive and neglectful father, Wollstonecraft was determined to have her own livelihood, and worked as a teacher and governess before becoming a translator and advisor for Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, in 1788. It was during this time that she wrote her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued against the idea that women are helpless and inferior to men, which was followed by Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, which asserted that women had strong sexual desires.

    Wollstonecraft passed away tragically in 1797, ten days after the birth of her second daughter, Mary, who would go on to write the literary classic Frankenstein. The life and death of Mary Wollstonecraft has been the subject of many biographies, including one written by her husband, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1798.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Classics
    Release dateApr 24, 2014
    ISBN9781609778828
    Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an English writer. She is best known for her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she puts forth the visionary argument that women and men should receive the same education and are moral equals in the eyes of God. One of the most pivotal thinkers of the Enlightenment, she is widely considered to be the first feminist philosopher, and her work strongly influenced the twentieth-century feminist movement.

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