Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself, as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. After Wollstonecraft's death, her widower published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for almost a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the 20th century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.
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referencedIn | Abinger Papers, 1769-1937 | Bodleian Library, Oxford | |
referencedIn | Chaapel family. Chaapel family papers, 1852-1942, bulk 1874-1899. | University of Michigan | |
referencedIn | Chaapel family. Papers, 1852-1942, bulk 1874-1899. | University of Michigan | |
referencedIn | Coffin-Greenly, Elizabeth Brown, Lady, d. 1839. Diary, 1792-1823. | Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library | |
referencedIn | Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940. Emma Goldman papers, 1905-1940 (inclusive), [microform]. | Yale University Library | |
referencedIn | Hering, Oliver, b. 1768. Oliver Hering correspondence, 1791-1850. | South Carolina Historical Society | |
referencedIn | Leigh Hunt collection of papers, 1772-1883, 1813-1859 | The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. | |
creatorOf | Mary Wollstonecraft manuscript material : 49 items, 1773-1797 | The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle. | |
referencedIn | New York Public Library. Manuscript guest-book for the Visionary Daughters of Albion exhibition at the New York Public Library, 1997 | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
referencedIn | Papers of Eleanor Flexner, 1895?-1995 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
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associatedWith | Barlow, Ruth Baldwin, 1755-1818. |
associatedWith | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948. |
associatedWith | Chaapel family. |
associatedWith | Chaapel family. |
associatedWith | Coffin-Greenly, Elizabeth Brown, Lady, d. 1839. |
associatedWith | Dyson, George, d. 1822 |
associatedWith | Eleanor Flexner, 1908- |
associatedWith | Flexner, Eleanor, 1908-1995. |
associatedWith | Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 |
associatedWith | Gabell, Henry, 1764-1831 |
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Birth 1759-04-27
Death 1797-09-10
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Cresswick, Mr., 1759-1797
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
ゴドウィン, メアリ, 1759-1797
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