About Mary Wollstonecraft

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About Mary Wollstonecraft

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• Family- father
• sister
• Friends- Jane Arden
• "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."
• Fanny Blood
• Governess- Original Stories from Real Life
• Becomes a professional writer-
• "the first of a
  new genus
• Joseph Johnson
• meeting
  William Godwin

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• Men- Henry Fuseli
• Gilbert Imlay
• William Godwin
• After Wollstonecrafts death-
• Godwins Memoirs

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Brief Intro. on Marys Works
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The French Revolution
Whats Womans Sphere?
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The Rights of Woman

Published in 1791 the second edition in 1792
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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• Main argument of Vindication
• ?education for women
• -Man and woman occupy separate spheres
• -The two spheres influence each other
• -Allowing women to receive education would
  improve child-rearing and eventually improve the
  public sphere

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Virginia Woolf ???????????????? ??Mary
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel inspired by Mary
Wollstonecraft, who told women they had the same
ability to reason as men did and deserved the
same rights
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• The End