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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships, received more attention than her writing. Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as im…
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culture · English writer and philosopher (1759–1797) · translator · philosopher · historian · novelist · essayist · governess · proprietor · travel writer · children's writer · writer · also Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mr. Cresswick, Wollstonecraft
Born 27 April 1759 · Died 10 September 1797 · Q101638
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s main purpose in such a society was to bear sons to continue a dynasty, which essentially reduced a woman
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“I’m really excited at the prospect of realising my idea, inspired by the trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft . I hope the piece will act as a metaphor for the challenges women continue to face as we confront the world.”
“s main purpose in such a society was to bear sons to continue a dynasty, which essentially reduced a woman”
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“s body and her ability to be charming over her mind and character, had encouraged women like Marie Antoinette to be manipulative and ruthless, making the queen into a corrupted and corrupting product of the ancien régime. In Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution (1799), the strongly anti-Jacobin historian John Adolphus condemned Wollstonecraft”
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“Time may show, that this obscure throng knew more of the human heart and of legislation than the profligates of rank, emasculated by hereditary effeminacy”
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“Probably you [Burke] mean women who gained a livelihood by selling vegetables or fish, who never had any advantages of education”
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“I have formed romantic notions of friendship ... I am a little singular in my thoughts of love and friendship; I must have the first place or none.”
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Infobae: Mary Wollstonecraft, filósofa inglesa: “Es la justicia, no la caridad, lo que falta en el mundo”
The Guardian: Mary and the Hyenas review – patchy ode to Wollstonecraft and women ‘howling at the world’
The Guardian: Mary Wollstonecraft statue becomes one of 2020's most polarising artworks
The Guardian: Wollstonecraft by Sylvana Tomaselli review – trailblazing feminist
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The Guardian: Wollstonecraft and Woolf both deserve statues. But do they represent women like me? | Claire Hynes
The Guardian: Poor Mary Wollstonecraft – reduced to a Pippa doll with pubic hair | Rachel Cooke
The Guardian: Honouring the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft | Letters
The Guardian: 'Insulting to her': Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture sparks backlash
The Guardian: Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be 'honoured' with his schlong out?
Wollstonecraft was selected by the Royal Mail for their "Eminent Britons" commemorative postage stamp issue
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Features a place setting for Wollstonecraft
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“Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
Refers to recent reprints of her works, incorporating new research, and to a "study" in 1911, a play in 1922, and another biography in 1924
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As part of a series by the Roberts Brothers on famous women
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With the publication of Wollstonecraft's Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by Charles Kegan Paul
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Devoted an essay to the roles and rights of women, comparing Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller
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Wollstonecraft's remains were moved by her grandson Sir Percy Shelley, 3rd Baronet, to his family tomb in St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
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At the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, discovered they both had read Wollstonecraft, and they agreed upon the need for (what became) the Seneca Falls Convention, an influential women's rights meeting held in 184
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Died 1797-09-10.
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“Original: «I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”
“Original: «Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”
Born 1759-04-27.
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s body and her ability to be charming over her mind and character, had encouraged women like Marie Antoinette to be manipulative and ruthless, making the queen into a corrupted and corrupting product of the ancien régime. In Biographical Memoirs of the French Revolution (1799), the strongly anti-Jacobin historian John Adolphus condemned Wollstonecraft
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