Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885.

Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain.

Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),  one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been called Britain’s first feminist. Her daughter Mary Shelley is the author of the novel Frankenstein (1818).  

This biography was written by Elizabeth Robin Pennell.  It was her first book, written before she was thirty. She was married that year to illustrator/artist Joseph Pennell. She wrote many other books: including cycling travels in Europe, art and food criticism, biographies of painter/friend: James Whistler (painter of Whistler’s Mother), folklorist/uncle: Charles Godfrey Leland, and memoirs of her London salon.

CONTENTS  
Introduction
CHAPTER I.— Childhood and Early Youth. 1759–1778
CHAPTER II.— First Years of Work. 1778–1785
CHAPTER III.— Life as Governess. 1786–1788
CHAPTER IV.— Literary Life. 1788–1791
CHAPTER V.— Literary Work. 1788–1791
CHAPTER VI. — “Vindication of the Rights of Women"
CHAPTER VII.— Visit to Paris. 1792–1793
CHAPTER VIII.— Life with Imlay. 1793–1794
CHAPTER IX.— Imlay’s Desertion. 1794–1795
CHAPTER X.— Literary Work. 1793–1796
CHAPTER XL— Retrospective. 1794–1796
CHAPTER XII.— William Godwin
CHAPTER XIII.— Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796–1797
CHAPTER XIV.— Last Months: Death

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