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3 unusual facts about Mary Wollstonecraft


Hannah Greg

He lived next door to Dr. Price where Mary Wollstonecraft was visitor.

Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), English author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft, New South Wales

Wollstonecraft said that he left England to escape the notoriety of his aunt Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.


Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin organised two exhibitions about the Regency actress Mrs Jordan at Kenwood in 1995, and about Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in 1997.

Levi Todd

Among his possessions included silver, fine china and leather-bound books; his personal library also contained rare works by Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke and William Blackstone.

Mary Hays

Mary Hays is memorialized in the Heritage Floor of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, near the place setting for Mary Wollstonecraft.

Revolution Controversy

Many writers responded, defending the revolution in France, among them Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.

Visions of the Daughters of Albion

S. Foster Damon (A Blake Dictionary) suggested that Blake had been influenced by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792.


see also

Lodore

Bennett, Betty T. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction.

Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), author of Frankenstein, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft

Edward Wollstonecraft, 19th-century merchant and explorer, nephew of Mary Wollstonecraft