San Antonio College Library

"Mary Wollstonecraft was the first major feminist in England, author of the pioneering Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. This biography argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy." "This biography stresses too her tortured relations with her family, arguing that her resentment of her brother, Ned, and his advantages as an adored boy fuelled her intellectual life. It especially relates her involvement with her two sisters,...

This book shows the transformation of an intelligent, high-strung girl into the first great advocate of female liberation, whose advanced ideas about woman's rights and education were more than a hundred years ahead of their time.

Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was written in 1796 after Wollstoncraft's return to England from a Scandinavian business trip taken on behalf of her lover Gilbert Imlay. It is a combination of travel writing, memoir, and philosophy based on journal entries and letters from the trip and includes observations on the conditions facing women in the countries visited.

Chronicles the life and career of Mary Wallstonecraft who is considered to be the founder of modern feminism, and describes her life and work in eighteenth-century Europe.

"Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) and her daughter Mary Shelley (1797-1851) have each been the subject of numerous biographies by top tier writers, yet no author has ever examined their lives in tandem. Perhaps this is because these two amazing women never knew each other--Wollstonecraft died of infection at the age of 38, a week after giving birth to her daughter. Nevertheless their lives were closely intertwined, their choices, dreams and tragedies...

The biography of an English radical of the late eighteenth century who openly fought against the subjection of women.

A comprehensive account of the Godwins and Shelleys, two families who shed light on the history and literature of the revolutionary and romantic age.