Wollstonecraft in a sentence

For example, the respected poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Wollstonecraft sparred back and forth; Barbauld published several poems responding to Wollstonecraft's work and Wollstonecraft commented on them in footnotes to the Rights of Woman.

By 1821 she had read Mary Wollstonecraft 's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and become a passionate supporter of Wollstonecraft's ideas.

Faderman (1981), p. 139. Wollstonecraft and Blood set up a girls' boarding school so they could live and work together, and Wollstonecraft named her first child after Blood.

Gordon, 521 While the Rights of Woman may have paved the way for feminist arguments, 20th century feminists have tended to use Wollstonecraft's life story, rather than her texts, for inspiration; Kaplan,"Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies".

Maria Edgeworth specifically distances herself from Wollstonecraft in her novel Belinda (1802); she caricatures Wollstonecraft as a radical feminist in the character of Harriet Freke.

The second and more important friendship was with Fanny (Frances) Blood, introduced to Wollstonecraft by the Clares, a couple in Hoxton who became parental figures to her; Wollstonecraft credited Blood with opening her mind.

Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 129. In addition to her broad philosophical arguments, Wollstonecraft lays out a specific plan for national education to counter Talleyrand 's.

Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 135. Her ambiguous statements regarding the equality of the sexes have since made it difficult to classify Wollstonecraft as a modern feminist, particularly since the word and the concept were unavailable to her.

Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 135. Moreover, Wollstonecraft calls on men, rather than women, to initiate the social and political changes she outlines in the Rights of Woman.

Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 274. Wollstonecraft's argument exposed the sexual double standard of the late 18th century and demanded that men adhere to the same virtues demanded of women.

Wollstonecraft, Vindications, 288. It is Wollstonecraft's last novel, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798), the fictionalised sequel to the Rights of Woman, that is usually considered her most radical feminist work.

A common element in Wollstonecraft and most other feminist leaders is that their difficult experiences have led to the belief that isolation from a family is the better way forward.

Wollstonecraft’s work, driven by a desire to erase authority, including the Catholic faith, is not about building, but tearing down.

Mary Wollstonecraft is best known as the writer of the pathbreaking ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792), an early treatise on gender equality.

She died aged just 38 having given birth to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote the gothic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.

But the work of Delany, Wollstonecraft, and Merian is also a reminder of the ingenuity with which women have historically navigated the gender norms imposed upon them.

But Wollstonecraft died when Mary was just a month old, and her father’s new wife was not interested in giving her a formal education.

Frankenstein, the novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is often hailed as the first novel in the science fiction genre.

In addition to her gravestone, Wollstonecraft left behind another tangible legacy: her literary works.

According to Johnson, Wollstonecraft "denounces the collapse of proper sexual distinction as the leading feature of her age, and as the grievous consequence of sentimentality itself.