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Mary Wollstonecraft :

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0333972511

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033397252X

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9780333972519

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9780333972526

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Mary Wollstonecraft :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a literary life /

First Statement of Responsibility

Caroline Franklin

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xix, 240 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Literary lives

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-228) and index

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'A genius will educate itself': Mary Wollstonecraft as autodidact -- 'When the voices of children are heard on the green': Mary Wollstonecraft the author-educator -- 'The first of a new genus": proud to be a female journalist -- 'An Amazon stept out': Wollstonecraft and the revolution debate -- The true perfection of man': Print, public opinion and the idea of progress -- The commercial traveller, the imagination and the material world -- 'We did not marry': the comedy and tragedy of marriage in life and fiction

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"This literary life shows how pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft was nurtured by the intellectual climate of Rational Dissent. Nonconformist circles afforded this autodidact-turned-teacher the opportunity of living solely by the pen and becoming a woman of letters during the revolutionary decade. Though famous for two of the most original political polemics of the Revolutionary Debate, Wollstonecraft was also notable as a novelist, educationalist, children's writer, translator, reviewer, letter-writer, historian and travel-writer. She became one of the most highly regarded female intellectuals in Europe. This story of her professional career takes us from provincial Yorkshire to North London suburban radicalism; from the high life of Dublin to the hacks of Grub Street; from the crowds in Paris during the Terror, to the lonely landscapes of Scandinavia. It follows the highs and lows of Wollstonecraft's Utopian belief that participation in the sphere of print culture was the best way to enlighten and change the world."--Jacket

Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797

Authors, English-- 18th century, Biography

Feminists-- Great Britain, Biography

Women and literature-- England-- History-- 18th century

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Franklin, Caroline,1949-

Date of Transaction

20160712073218.0

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