Mary Wollstonecraft (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Janet Todd
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1759-1797
- Setting: England, Ireland, France, Portugal, and Scandinavia
- Principal Characters: Mary Wollstonecraft, Fanny Blood, William Godwin, Joseph Johnson, Gilbert Imlay, Edward John Wollstonecraft, Eliza Wollstonecraft, Everina Wollstonecraft
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, England or English people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Eighteenth century, Scandinavia or Scandinavians, Women’s rights, Ireland or Irish people, Great Britain, Portugal or Portuguese people
- Locales: France, England, Ireland, Scandinavia, Portugal
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is one of those rare commodities to the would-be biographer—an author whose writings are inextricably linked with her life. To the general reader, she is probably most closely associated with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her daughter and the author of the most famous tale of horror ever written—Frankenstein (1818). To her contemporaries, however, she was the scandalous hack writer who flouted the conventions of society and bore her first child out of wedlock. She also established her literary reputation as the author of the radical feminist...
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