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Mary Wollstonecraft : a very short introduction
Clery, E. J.2025
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Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', is a work of worldwide renown. Yet the range of her achievements as a thinker and writer reaches far beyond this text. She was a multi-faceted author, and although the condition of women was a constant preoccupation throughout her life, she wrote on a wide variety of topics and in a range of literary forms, some of which she created herself. This 'Very Short Introduction' examines the conditions for Wollstonecraft's emergence as a feminist, but also her status as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic. E.J. Clery also considers the reception Mary Wollstonecraft has received over the last two centuries and argues that readers need to look at her gamut of activities anew in the 21st century.
Main title:
Mary Wollstonecraft : a very short introduction / E.J. Clery.
Author:
Clery, E. J., author
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2025.
Collation:
152 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9780192862563 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
828.609
Language:
English
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BRN:
6772890