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“She was both passionate and highly critical when she so chose, but she was also able to revise her views"
A new book by a St John’s historian paints a richly rounded picture of the writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, aiming to restore her to her rightful place as a major thinker of the 18th century.
In Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics, Sylvana Tomaselli throws light on the less salient side of Wollstonecraft, known as the pioneer of English feminism – famous for her ground-breaking A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) – and mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.
Sylvana Tomaselli, Sir Harry Hinsley Lecturer in History, Director of Studies in History and Human, Social and Political Sciences, and Fellow of St John’s, calls for a wider understanding of Wollstonecraft, who was an advokat for equality of men and women and a keen abolitionist of the slave trade and slavery. She was a controversial writer and fierce critic of so
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1An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution ; and the Effect it has produced in Europe (1794) is Mary Wollstonecraft’s one work of history. She wrote it while staying in France, from December 1792 to April 1795, at a time when it was dangerous to express reservations about the revolutionary government. It was also a time when there were very few women writing books of history1. Wollstonecraft probably embarked on what she said would vända out to be « a considerable work »2 before June 1793, when she was already referring in a letter to her sister Eliza to her « great book »3. The book which was published in late 1794 was to have been the first in a multi-volume history of the French Revolution, but she never went beyond this volume.
2This may be because her chronicle of the revolution moved very slowly ; by the end of the first volume, a fairly large quarto, she had only reached October 1789. More importantly, it may also be b
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.
BY
ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL.
BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1890.
Copyright, 1884,
By Roberts Brothers.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.
PREFACE.
Comparatively little has been written about the life of Mary Wollstonecraft. The two authorities upon the subject are Godwin and Mr. C. Kegan Paul.