The passions of Mary Wollstonecraft
Bardsley, Wendy Louise2017
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As a young woman, Mary copes with a bullying father, a subjugated mother, sees young friends die in childbirth and from tuberculosis. And whilst her elder brother Ned follows an unfettered path to a career as a lawyer, Mary is deprived of a formal education. All of these experiences combine to shape Mary's ideals for the improvement of the lot of women, a subject she pursues passionately throughout her adult life. With the French Revolution raging, Mary travels to Paris to experience the terror pervading the French capital. Whilst there, she meets and falls in love with Gilbert Imlay, by whom she has a daughter. But Imlay proves feckless, and the relationship, which began so passionately, ends in tears. Back in London, Mary rejoins Joseph Johnson's cultural circle which includes William Godwin, who has admired her for a long-time. Mary and Godwin marry in March 1797 and in August 1797, their daughter, also called Mary and who will grow up to be the future Mary Shelley, is born. But complications follow the birth and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies on 10 September 1797, aged just 38, leaving her seminal work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, as a fitting epitaph to a remarkable story.
Main title:
The passions of Mary Wollstonecraft / Wendy Louise Bardsley.
Author:
Bardsley, Wendy Louise, author
Imprint:
S.l. : Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2017.
ISBN:
9780413777867 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1887472