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Wollstonecraft, Mary

 
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Synopsis

Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century British philosopher, writer and feminist. Her best known work was A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She also wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft believed that women and men should be treated as equal rational beings and that women only appear to be inferior because of their lack of education. Mary was the wife of philosopher William Godwin and the mother of Mary Shelley who was the author of Frankenstein. In this novel Mary flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Three novels, two by Mary Wollstonecraft and one by her daughter, Mary Shelley, here published together for the first time. In "Mary", the author expresses her ideas on female emancipation and extends them in "Maria". "Matilda" relates the story of a father's incestuous desire for his daughter.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mary, by Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Wollstonecraft was british writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights (1759-1797).

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