Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797)
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Mary Wollstonecraft was ...
related to | Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt |
related to | Amelia Opie |
related to | Margaret King |
related to | Helen Maria Williams |
related to | Catherine Macaulay |
related to | Mary Shelley |
related to | Mary Hays |
related to | Charlotte Smith |
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Place(s) of Residence | England |
Receptions of Mary Wollstonecraft, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
MENTIONED IN:
- Lerner, Creation of Feminist Consciousness, 1993, discussed p.211-2
Cf.
- Prinsen, Ned. lit.gesch. ca. 1920: Sand en Wollstonecraft in een adem genoemd: Mina Kruseman kon aan beiden niet tippen! svd mei 2004
Married to William Godwin, 2 daughters.
Born into middle class family, but compelled to work to support family.
Religion/ideology : Anglican; unorthodox.
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Health: By her own account had an easy birth with first child in France with female midwife. Preferred female midwives, but male physician was employed by husband William Godwin when birth of second daughter became complicated. Died 11 days after giving birth. (FScottJuly12.) /Died in childbirth.
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Political writer, writer of conduct literature, travel writer.
Translator from French (Jacques Necker); translator from German (Christian Gotthilf Salzmann).
MENTIONED IN: - Offen, European feminisms, 2000, p.73: novels containing “fem.”message, and other pages