Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) was an British writer and philosopher, most known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- Mary Wollstoncraft: BritannicaA Britannica article on the life of Mary Wollstoncraft.
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyMary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was a moral and political philosopher whose analysis of the condition of women in modern society retains much of its original radicalism.
Research and Reference
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on the life and works of Mary Wollstoncraft. This page includes reference works, images, library resources, and a concept map.
Streaming Media
- Mary WollstonecraftDan Harmons spends his Community fortune on a time machine. His guest from the past is Mary Wollstonecraft (Aubrey Plaza). Dan introduces Mary to his girlfriend and gets a lesson.
- Mary WollstonecraftBritain's first feminist wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" in London in 1792, echoing Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man." She proposed a girls' education program and advocated legal and political equality.
Author's Works & Perspectives
A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft, often described as the first major feminist, is remembered principally as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and there has been a tendency to view her most famous work in isolation. Yet Wollstonecraft's pronouncements about women grew out of her reflections about men, and her views on the female sex constituted an integral part of a wider moral and political critique of her times which she first fully formulated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790). Written as a reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), this is an important text in its own right as well as a necessary tool for understanding Wollstonecraft's later work. This edition brings the two texts together and also includes Hints, the notes which Wollstonecraft made towards a second, never completed, volume of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft
Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to eighteenth-century literary and political traditions as well as a forebear of romanticism. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays commissioned for this volume do justice to Wollstonecraft's pivotal importance in her own time and since, paying attention not only to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also to the full range of her work across disciplinary boundaries separating philosophy, letters, education, advice, politics, history, religion, sexuality, and feminism itself. A chronology and bibliography offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer.