Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Mary, A Fiction

Mary, A Fiction( )
Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
ISBN:978-1-4270-1888-5
Publication Date:Mar 2009
Publisher:ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $10.99USD $19.99
Book Description:

Mary: A Fiction (1788) is an autobiographical novel by Mary Wollstonecraft. It presents the tale of a woman who is dissatisfied with traditional marriage, which she compares to slavery, and wants to live life her own way.

Book Details
Pages:124
Author Biography
Wollstonecraft, Mary (Author)
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London on April 27, 1759. She opened a school in Newington Green with her sister Eliza and a friend Fanny Blood in 1784. Her experiences lead her to attack traditional teaching methods and suggested new topics of study in Thoughts on the Education of Girls. In 1792, she published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she attacked the educational restrictions that kept women ignorant and dependant on men as well as describing marriage as legal prostitution. In Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, published unfinished in 1798, she asserted that women had strong sexual desires and that it was degrading and immoral to pretend otherwise.

In 1793, Wollstonecraft became involved with American writer Gilbert Imlay and had a daughter named Fanny. After this relationship ended, she married William Godwin in March 1797 and had a daughter named Mary in August. Wollstonecraft died from complications following childbirth on September 10, 1797. Her daughter Mary later married Percy Bysshe Shelley and wrote Frankenstein.

030



Featured Books

I Love You Through and Through
Rossetti-Shustak, Bernadette
Board book: $8.99
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hardback: $20.00
The Odyssey
Homer
Hardback: $17.95

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.