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1. • • John Adams said of Mary Wollstonecraft: "She seems to have half a mind to be an Englishwoman, yet more inclined to be an American." Mary Wollstonecraft never came to America, but she did imagine it in the 1780s and 1790s, and did plan to emigrate with her American partner, Gilbert Imlay.
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   What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

   • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. 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.

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   What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe?

   • Mary Wollstonecraft believed in a thorough education for girls to aid them in their roles of eventual wives and mothers. She did not think women should marry too young. Instead, she thought it would be better for them to mature before marrying. She thought that it was important for middle class girls to learn morals and intellectualism.

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   Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?

   • The second of seven children, Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, London, on 27 April 1759, in a house on Primrose Street. Her paternal grandfather was a successful master weaver who left a sizeable legacy, but her father, Edward John, mismanaged his share of the inheritance. He tried to establish himself as a gentleman farmer in Epping.

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   What is Wollstonecraft's view on marriage?

   • In Wollstonecraft’s view, marriages ought to have friendship rather than physical attraction as their basis (Kendrick 2019). Husbands and wives ought not, moreover, to be overly intimate and should maintain a degree of reserve towards each other. This said, she thought sex should be based on genuine mutual physical desire.

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3. eppc.org › publication › the-reason-of-maryThe Reason of Mary Wollstonecraft: Championing Women and ...

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   Apr 29, 2024 · And it’s a lost vision, in my telling, that originates with the thought of the late-18th century English philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. Carrie Gress’ new book tracing modern feminism’s many ills to early feminism’s origins in Wollstonecraft implicitly challenges my account.

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   Apr 29, 2024 · Although she may disagree with their embrace of the term, those who champion what John Paul II called “new feminism” share the same goal: building what Gress describes as “a civilization in ...

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   Aug 22, 2007 · This article is the first in-depth analysis of the direct intellectual engagement between one of America's most important Founding Fathers, John Adams, and the work of the leading modern feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft.

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   Nov 17, 2020 · Best known today for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft was a prolific writer, whose publications included a conduct book, a novel, a travel diary, several children’s morality tales, a treatise calling for the abolition of slavery and a history of the French revolution.

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   Jan 9, 2024 · Mary Wollstonecraft compiled a collection of texts for the moral, philosophical, practical, and religious education of girls. It contains a wide variety of authors and sources, from Shakespeare to Scripture, to her own original prayers.

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   Mary 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.

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    Aug 28, 2005 · Born in 1759, when husbands utterly ruled women's lives and were able to legally beat them, she's often seen as the mother of modern feminism. Mary Wollstonecraft, in 1793 when she was 32,...