Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1

Name: Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

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Project Gutenberg

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United Kingdom: J. Rice, 1798.

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Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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2022-04-16

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Public domain in the USA.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Correspondence Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

About the authors

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797

A fierce and original voice of the Enlightenment, she argued that women were not naturally inferior to men but held back by unequal education. Her writing still feels bold, urgent, and surprisingly modern.

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William Godwin

1756–1836

A bold English thinker and novelist, he became one of the earliest major voices for political reform and philosophical anarchism. He is also remembered for his close connection to two literary trailblazers: Mary Wollstonecraft, whom he married, and their daughter Mary Shelley.

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