Mary Wollstonecraft mother of women's rights

Describes the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, the first great English feminist, founder of a school in London, and author of the first great argument for the education of women.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brody, Miriam, 1940-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Ã2000.
Series:Oxford portraits.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Sweet Beverley"--Mary and Jane: Mary Wollstonecraft to Jane Arden
  • Fanny--and a room of their own: Letter from bath
  • Apprenticeship as governess and schoolteacher: From Mary, a fiction
  • Vindicating the rights of women: Wollstonecraft's call to arms
  • Revolution and romance in Paris: Visiting Versailles during the French Revolution
  • Solitary traveler
  • "The most extraordinary married pair": Mary Wollstonecraft to William Godwin
  • "Without a tear": Legacy of Mary Wollstonecraft: Godwin on Wollstonecraft after her death
  • Chronology
  • Further reading
  • Index.