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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters( )
Author: Wollstonecraft, Mary
Series title:Cambridge Library Collection - Education Ser.
ISBN:978-1-108-06590-0
Publication Date:Mar 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $35.99
Book Description:

First published in 1787, this book provocatively challenged eighteenth-century attitudes towards women, and paved the way for modern feminist thinking. It argues that women can offer the most effective contribution to society if they are brought up to display sound moral values and character, rather than superficial social graces.

Book Details
Pages:170
Detailed Subjects: Self-Help / Personal Growth / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.424 x 0.39 Inches
Book Weight:0.484 Pounds
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.

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