Mary Wollstonecraft : her life and times
1971, First Edition. London : J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Good cloth library copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Endpapers stained from library adhesive. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477854
Physical description; xii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index. Contents; Early struggles for independence – The horizon broadens – In Ireland. Contact with the nobility – 'A pack of dirty Jacobins' – Her reply to Burke's 'Reflections' – Fuseli and other company – 'A vindication of the rights of woman' – To Paris for the Revolution – The meeting with Imlay – From feminist to humanist – 'The more I think the sadder I grow' – Back in London – The treason trials and Godwin's intervention – Letters from Scandinavia – An ever-growing heap of discarded hopes – The break with Imlay – Godwin: 'Friendship melting into love' – Marriage with Godwin – Birth of a second daughter and death of Mary – 'An undaunted and masculine spirit'. Subjects; Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) – Biography. Authors, English – 18th century – Biography. Feminists – Great Britain – Biography. Women and literature – England – History – 18th century.
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