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Frances "Fanny" Blood (1758 – 29 November 1785) was an English illustrator and educator, and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft. Early life [ edit ] Blood was born in 1758, the daughter of Matthew Blood the Younger (1730–1794) and Caroline Roe ( c. 1730–1805).
- 1758
- Hugh Skeys
- British
- 29 November 1785 (aged 26–27), Lisbon
- A Lack of Trust. Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, England, in 1759. The seventh of eight children, Wollstonecraft spent her early childhood in relative comfort.
- Security Guard. Under the influence of alcohol, Wollstonecraft’s father could be abusive. Wollstonecraft often slept outside her mother’s door to protect her from one of her father’s drunken rages.
- Self-Taught. Unlike her brother, Mary Wollstonecraft and her sisters did not receive a formal education. Such was the custom at the time. Wollstonecraft’s thirst for knowledge could not be slighted, however.
- Home Away From Home. Wollstonecraft found a surrogate father in John Arden, the father of her best friend, Jane. John Arden was a schoolteacher and an amateur scientist and philosopher, who delighted in sharing his knowledge with the two girls.
Apr 16, 2008 · Wollstonecraft had a girl by Imlay. She was born at Le Havre in May 1794 and named Fanny, after Wollstonecraft’s friend, Fanny Blood. A year after Fanny’s birth, Wollstonecraft twice attempted suicide, first in May, then in October 1795. She broke with Imlay finally in March 1796.
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As an adolescent Mary Wollstonecraft befriended Fanny Blood with whom she formed an enduring bond. After the death of her mother in 1780, Mary abandoned her own home and went to live with the Blood family, a female enclave that subsisted on the small earnings to be made by needlework and painting. Her sister Eliza escaped the home by marriage ...
- The Power of Experience. Mary Wollstonecraft believed that one's life experiences had a crucial impact on one's possibilities and character. Her own life illustrates this power of experience.
- Mary Wollstonecraft's Early Life. Mary Wollstonecraft was born on April 27, 1759. Her father had inherited wealth from his father but spent the entire fortune.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Takes Up Writing. From the circle of English intellectuals to whom she'd been introduced through Rev. Price, Mary Wollstonecraft had met Joseph Johnson, a leading publisher of the liberal ideas of England.
- Liberty in the Air. Certainly, this was a period of exhilaration for Mary Wollstonecraft. Accepted into circles of intellectuals, beginning to make her living with her own efforts, and expanding her own education through reading and discussion, she had achieved a position in sharp contrast to that of her mother, sister, and friend Fanny.
Mary met Fanny Blood after the Wollstonecrafts abandoned farming and moved back to Hoxton, on the outskirts of London, in 1774. A neighboring cleric and his wife, who took an interest in Mary and encouraged her self-education through reading, introduced her to Fanny, whose family situation seemed to mirror her own.
Apr 30, 2021 · Reverend Clare would also introduce Mary to Fanny Blood, who became another of her closest friends. Living in London once more, Mary became restless and wanted to leave her family home to be nearer to Fanny. Again, her father moved the family, this time to Walworth in South London, which did bring Mary a little closer to Fanny.
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