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Feb 2, 2016 · This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Writer Mary Shelley published her most famous novel, Frankenstein, in 1818. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835)...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English Romantic novelist who is best known as the author of Frankenstein, a text that is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel and is also often considered an early example of science fiction.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is best known for writing Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831), a text that is part Gothic nove...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s best-known book is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818, revised 1831). She wrote several other novels, incl...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a noted social philosopher, political journalist, and religious Dissenter, and her mother...
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) met the young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812 and ran off with him to France in July 1814. The couple we...
May 29, 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. Her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is considered a trailblazing work of feminism. Her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, was a noted writer best known for the novel Frankenstein.
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- Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and a passionate advocate of educational and social equality for women. She called for the betterment of...
- Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a trailblazing feminist work which argues that the educational system delibe...
- In 1796 Mary Wollstonecraft began a liaison with William Godwin, a social philosopher, and on March 29, 1797, they were married. The marriage was h...
- The daughter of a farmer, Mary Wollstonecraft taught school and worked as a governess, experiences that inspired her views in Thoughts on the Educa...
Apr 23, 2015 · Charlotte Gordon's most recent book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (Random House), won the National Book Critics Circle award for biography.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: / ˈ w ʊ l s t ən k r ɑː f t /; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
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Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences. During her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.
