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Mary Wollstonecraft 4 free books by Mary Wollstonecraft. 4 you can read right here.
Born in Spitalfields · Died in Somers Town
writer, novelist, essayist · Kingdom of Great Britain · associated with feminism
Notable works: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Also by Mary Wollstonecraft: read here A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life
An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution; and the effect it has produced in Europe
Mary: A Fiction
Original stories from real life With conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness.
Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1
Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories
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From Project Gutenberg e-text #3420 (public domain in the USA).
Taught from their infancy, that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
3. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED Read in context → Copy Share Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him the gift of reason?
12. ON NATIONAL EDUCATION Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #134 (public domain in the USA).
Esteem will often supply the place of love; and prevent a woman from being wretched, though it may not make her happy.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter 10
Read in context → Copy Share By allowing women but one way of rising in the world, the fostering the libertinism of men, society makes monsters of them, and then their ignoble vices are brought forward as a proof of inferiority of intellect.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter 8
Read in context → Copy Share From Project Gutenberg e-text #34413 (public domain in the USA).
I labour in vain to calm my mind--my soul has been overwhelmed by sorrow and disappointment.
Letter LIV Read in context → Copy Share It appears to me absurd to waste life in preparing to live.
Letter XXIX Read in context → Copy Share All authors →