Maria Or The Wrongs Of A Woman

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066388546

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Maria - The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. However, the heroine's inability to relinquish her romantic fantasies also reveals women's collusion in their oppression through false and damaging sentimentalism. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between women. Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin's scandalous Memoirs of Wollstonecraft's life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published.

Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317797777

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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Adriana Craciun Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents. Key materials in this sourcebook include: *letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents *nineteenth-century responses to the text *twentieth-century critical readings *annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts *suggestions for further reading. This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.

Author : Mary Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722633999

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Maria, the Wrongs of Woman (New Classics) by Mary Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

THE WRONGS OF WOMAN, like the wrongs of the oppressed part of mankind, may be deemed necessary by their oppressors: but surely there are a few, who will dare to advance before the improvement of the age, and grant that my sketches are not the abortion of a distempered fancy, or the strong delineations of a wounded heart. In writing this novel, I have rather endeavoured to pourtray passions than manners. In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic, would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. In the invention of the story, this view restrained my fancy; and the history ought rather to be considered, as of woman, than of an individual. The sentiments I have embodied. In many works of this species, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wise and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumstances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate, and to act like goddesses of wisdom, just come forth highly finished Minervas from the head of Jove. For my part, I cannot suppose any situation more distressing, than for a woman of sensibility, with an improving mind, to be bound to such a man as I have described for life; obliged to renounce all the humanizing affections, and to avoid cultivating her taste, lest her perception of grace and refinement of sentiment, should sharpen to agony the pangs of disappointment. Love, in which the imagination mingles its bewitching colouring, must be fostered by delicacy. I should despise, or rather call her an ordinary woman, who could endure such a husband as I have sketched.

Author : Charlotte Elizabeth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Dressmakers
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQRTQ

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The Wrongs of Woman by Charlotte Elizabeth Pdf

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547415398

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Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

"Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman" is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.

Author : Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0760754942

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513275932

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Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) is a novel by English writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Intended as a fictional sequel to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), a groundbreaking work of feminism and political philosophy, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously by Wollstonecraft’s husband, anarchist philosopher and writer William Godwin. Denied her autonomy, Maria is sent to an insane asylum by her husband, a wealthy aristocrat. Separated from her child and unable to advocate on her own behalf, Maria is fortunate to befriend Jemima, an attendant from the lower classes who empathizes with Maria’s situation. Jemima secretly provides her with books, inadvertently introducing her to the marginalia of Henry Darnford, another inmate at the asylum. The three grow close, sharing their stories with one another. Darnford reveals his troubled past and struggles with alcohol, Jemima discloses her experiences as an abused orphan-turned-prostitute, and Maria discusses her abusive marriage to George Venables. As she turned toward literature and intellectual life to avoid George’s affairs and frequent gambling, Maria found herself desperately looking for a way out. After several escape attempts, George—who had been scheming for years to frame his wife in order to divorce her—conspires to send her to the asylum, taking their child and cutting off contact with Maria. Although unfinished, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman explores the themes of her political and philosophical writings while illuminating the injustices suffered by women and lower class individuals in English society. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft,Mary Shelley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140433716

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Mary; Maria; Matilda by Mary Wollstonecraft,Mary Shelley Pdf

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. And Mary Shelley's Matilda - suppressed for over a century - tells the story of a woman alienated from society by the incestuous passion of her father. Humane, compassionate and highly controversial, these stories demonstrate the strongly original genius of their authors. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798712586028

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Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1685650325

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Mother of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin Pdf

THE SEMINAL, UNFINISHED WORK BY THE MOTHER OF MODERN FEMINISM.And a memoir written by her grief-stricken husband. Do you know whose shoulders you stand on...Mary Wollstonecraft lived for 38 years¿and changed the world. She died in agony 11 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, who would become the author of Frankenstein. Her heartbroken husband, William Godwin, vowed to compile her memoirs and publish them along with her unfinished Victorian gothic novel in 1798. He meant to glorify her. The opposite happened. European society made a freak of Wollstonecraft, her work and her memory. What could she have written that scandalized so much? What did Godwin reveal to incite such ire? In The Wrongs of Woman, Maria has been separated from her infant daughter and imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. There, she forms an unexpected friendship with one of the female wards. Could romance follow? Delve into the most radical feminist work from the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and find out. Wollstonecraft's courage made our world a more equal place. Godwin's love ensured we could know whose shoulders we stand on.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547305569

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Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the tragic story of a female's successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. Composed while Wollstonecraft was a governess in Ireland, the novel was published in 1788 shortly after her summary dismissal and her decision to embark on a writing career, a precarious and disreputable profession for women in 18th-century Britain.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387303315

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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters; With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108404235

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Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.

Author : Barbara Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521004179

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination by Barbara Taylor Pdf

In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft s thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain s radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft s feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft s works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798700491976

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Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

"Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a feminist novel set in 18th century England, at a time when women were just mere assets to men. Having woken up in the wrong marriage, Maria tries to escape her husbands and instead, she is imprisoned in an asylum. There she meets warden Jemima, a woman abused as a child and fellow inmate Henry Darnford, sane but living a chaotic life. Maria ends up falling in love with Henry preparing us for an open ending with many twists and turns.