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	Mary Wollstonecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wollstonecraft summarizes the main articles of early education as a strict adherence to truth; a proper submission to superiors; and condescension to inferiors; she also argues for the development of sound moral understanding over the mindless cultivation of exterior accomplishments like drawing and music (Richardson, 27).
		Wollstonecraft affirms her support for the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen by addressing a reply to Burke in the second person, in the form of a letter (Franklin, 92).
		Wollstonecraft’s scholarship has played a leading role in a shift from the study of the experience or writings of women as a separate category of literary or historical analysis, and toward the complex involvement of women and of gender difference in all areas of 18th century life and thought (Kaplan, 247).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft (4243 words)

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		Edward John Wollstonecraft – of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women – in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father.
		Mary Wollstonecraft remembered her loss ten years afterwards in these « Letters from Sweden and Norway, » when she wrote: « The grave has closed over a dear friend, the friend of my youth; still she is present with me, and I hear her soft voice warbling as I stray over the heath.
		That was the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, thirty years old, in 1789, the year of the Fall of the Bastille; the noble life now to be touched in its enthusiasms by the spirit of the Revolution, to be caught in the great storm, shattered, and lost among its wrecks.
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	MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN - LoveToKnow Article on MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, after dissipating the greater part of his patrimony, tried to earn a living by farming, which only plunged him into deeper difficulties, and he led a wandering, shifty life.
		Mrs Wollstonecraft, as she now styled herself, desired to watch the progress of the Revolution in France, and went to Paris in 1792.
		In I 796, when Mary Wollstonecraft was living in London, supporting herself and her child by working, as before, for Mr Johnson, she met William Godwin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GODWIN_MARY_WOLLSTONECRAFT.htm (1413 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life
		In 1765 the master silk-weaver Edward Wollstonecraft of Spitalfields died at the age of seventy-six and was buried with some ceremony in the elegant new church of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate.
		Edward Wollstonecraft was a despot in his domestic kingdom, dominating the resentful childhood of his daughter, who would note her own mercurial moods and quick temper while never admitting the resemblance — though later she compared herself to Lear, that childish tyrant with three daughters.
		Edward had sufficient means to succeed in farming in a fertile district of moderately sized properties.
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	Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
		The Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, was born in London, the second of six children.
		Her father, Edward John Wollstonecraft, was a family despot who bullied his wife, Elizabeth Dixon, into a state of wearied servitude.
		Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical in the sense that she desired to bridge the gap between mankind's present circumstances and ultimate perfection.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/wollstonecraft.html (679 words)

	Coolangatta Estate biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Coolangatta Estate was established in 1822 by Scottish born surgeon, merchant and explorer, Alexander Berry, and his partner Edward Wollstonecraft who were given a land grant of 10,000 acres (40.5 kmandsup2) and 100 convicts by Governor Brisbane.
		Berry, who married Wollstonecraft's sister in 1827, set up his headquarters at the foot of Mount Coolangatta, north of the river with tools, provisions and the people who were to make up the first community.
		Wollstonecraft died in 1832, but in the years to come, Berry was to be joined by his three brothers and two of his sisters, none of whom had any direct descendants.
	coolangatta-estate.biography.ms (895 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wollstonecraft was able to step back and look at the big picture of her country, thus enabling her to notice that women's place in society was significantly less prominent than men's and that women were clearly not respected.
		Wollstonecraft didn't even admire the gentlemanly favors that men do for women: “I lament that women are systematically degraded by receiving trivial attentions.
		Had Mary Wollstonecraft not pondered the imbalance of the sexes, the world would not be as far along in creating gender equality as it is today.
	www.lakesideschool.org /studentweb/worldhistory/modernworld/MaryWollstonecraft.htm (1461 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
		April 27, Wollstonecraft was born in London to John Edward Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson.
		Wollstonecraft is called to nurse her sister Eliza who is apparently deranged from the difficult birth of her daughter and some sources say, the abuse of the husband.
		By the end of the year, Wollstonecraft is attached to Imlay yet does not marry him, preferring instead to simply register as his wife at the American Embassy in Paris for protection purposes.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/wollstonecraft.html (765 words)

	family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her parents, John Edward Wollstonecraft and Elizabeth Dickson, had six children.
		Edward was older than Mary, James, Charles, Eliza, and Everina were all younger.
		Mary Wollstonecraft's early life was one of dwindling fortune and frequent upheaval.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/wollstonecraft/biofamily.html (96 words)

	Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
		Edward John Wollstonecraft--of whose children, besides Mary, the second child, three sons and two daughters lived to be men and women--in course of the got rid of about ten thousand pounds, which had been left him by his father.
		While there, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her little tale published as "Mary, a Fiction," wherein there was much based on the memory of her own friendship for Fanny Blood.
		The publisher of Mary Wollstonecraft's "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" was the same Joseph Johnson who in 1785 was the publisher of Cowper's "Task." With her little story written and a little money saved, the resolve to live by her pen could now be carried out.
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	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
		Mary Wollstonecraft, then aged thirty and having just settled her younger sisters as teachers in a Putney school, was one of the first to snatch up her pen and write an emotional response.
		Mary Wollstonecraft, established as a leader of the New Philosophy with her second political publication, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, followed Paine to Paris in support of that feverishly brilliant group of revolution-minded orators, the Girondists.
		He did not meet Mary Wollstonecraft, although her family were living in Hoxton at that time, but the academy brought him together with James Marshall, a kind, gentle and, although he was almost always poor, invariably generous man who became his lifelong friend.
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	The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward the Fifth, irritated by the extinction of the hopes which the intrigues of his mother had kept alive in his breast, wasted by imprisonment in the Tower, and brooking with untamed pride the change from a regal to a private station, pined and died.
		Edward the Fourth died, and under Richard the Third Lady Brampton returned to her natural place in society; nay, the vivacity of speech with which she defended the rights of his nephews, made him absolutely discountenance her.
		The Lady Margaret, sister of Edward the Fourth of England, and wife of Charles the Rash of Burgundy, was a woman distinguished by her wisdom and her goodness.
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	Women's Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Polwhele is totally against Mary Wollstonecraft, and he remarks that she is influencing girls to exchange the blush of modesty for the bronze of insolence.
		Her father, Edward Wollstonecraft, was a tyrant who bullied his wife into a state of servitude.
		Mary Wollstonecraft was a radical in the sense that she wanted to make society aware of its downfalls and to encourage them to strive for ultimate perfection for the future.
	cal.jmu.edu /aleysb/women's.htm (5386 words)

	Wollstonecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wollstonecraft was now twenty-eight years old and unemployed, but the connection with the publisher Joseph Johnson proved to be useful to her.
		Wollstonecraft's first Vindication was extremely popular and a second edition was published at the beginning of 1791 with her name on the title page.
		By August, Wollstonecraft was pregnant and in September she returned to Paris where she was registered as Imlay's legal wife at the American Embassy.
	members.fortunecity.es /agustinirissou/wollstonecraft_biography.htm (1692 words)

	First Person - Life Matters - 29/03/2002: First Person - Mary Shelleys letter on the death of Percy Shelley
		Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was born in London in 1797.
		She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, an advocate for the right of women to be educated and William Godwin who has been called the ‘father of philosophical anarchism’.
		Her husband Edward was drowned with Shelley.Lanfranchi was Byron’s house in Pisa and Guiccioli was the Countess Guiccioli who was Byron’s mistress.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/lm/stories/s508030.htm (237 words)

	Alexander Berry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was in Cádiz that he met Edward Wollstonecraft, with whom he formed a partnership (Berry and Wollstonecraft) in 1819.
		The land grant was awarded and Berry set up the Coolangatta Estate while Wollstonecraft stayed in Sydney to look after business there.
		Berry was a Member of the Old Legislative Council from 1829 to 1856 and a Member of the NSW Legislative Council from 1856 to 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Berry (686 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
		Her father's name was Edward John, and the name of her mother Elizabeth, of the family of Dixons of Ballyshannon in the kingdom of Ireland: her paternal grandfather was a respectable manufacturer in Spitalfields, and is supposed to have left to his son a property of about 10,000l.
		The principal acquaintance of the Wollstonecrafts in this retirement, was the family of a Mr.
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	Chawton House Library and Study Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Wollstonecraft's most famous publication was written as a response to Rousseau's Émile (1762) which argues for women's subjugation and claims that educated women would lose their power over men.
		However, her early life was unsettled as her father, Edward John, renounced his lace-making skills and, with money from Mary's grandfather, attempted to become a gentleman farmer moving from farm to farm, losing money as he went, and subjecting his family to a spiral of downward mobility.
		Harbouring little doubt that her relationship with Imlay was over, Wollstonecraft once more revealed her spirit and tenacity in embarking on a difficult trip to Scandinavia with her young daughter.
	www.chawton.org /biography.php?AuthorID=26 (2892 words)

	Dowling College: PHL002: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
		Her father, Edward Wollstonecraft, steadily wasted his inheritance on 6 different farms.
		Wollstonecraft was utterly distraught, and jumped off a bridge over the River Thames.
		Wollstonecraft gave birth to her second daughter, Mary, in August 1797.
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	Freethought of the Day
		On this date in 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London, the second of seven children.
		The first influential book calling for the equality of the sexes, it urged that women be educated and treated as "rational creatures." Wollstonecraft championed dress reform, breast-feeding, early education and a national system of coeducational primary schools.
		Wollstonecraft was an ardent rationalist and Deist who adopted an agnostic point of view toward the end of her life.
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	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2003062764
		Despite his wealth, position and desire to please, Edward was never quite in favor with Dublin Castle or with the new young Hanoverian king George III in England, but he was persistent.
		Edward had been courting him for some years and in 1763, the year Richard's wealthy wife died, Edward had provided him with a parliamentary seat in which he had an interest at Boyle.
		Her favorite was the younger Edward, a glamorous and affectionate boy, and for him she reserved her greatest outpourings of love.
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	A Chronology of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology & Resource Site - ...
		Edward Williams and Medwin had served in the army together in India.
		Edward John Trelawny, a friend of the Williamses and Medwin, and an admirer of PBS and Byron, arrives in Pisa.
		Lady Jane Shelley arranges for the remains of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin to be moved from St. Pancras to the churchyard at St. Peters, Bournemouth, and on 8 February, MWS is buried between her parents.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/chronologies/mschronology/chrono.html (4689 words)

	Mary Shelley Biography
		By the time she was nineteen, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley had written one of the most famous novels ever published.
		Godwin's noble intention was to immortalize his wife, whom he considered to be a "person of eminent merit." Instead of expressing admiration, however, the public condemned Wollstonecraft as licentious, and read her attempted suicides in terms of her lack of religious convictions.
		In the index to the Anti-Jacobin Review of 1798, for example, "See Mary Wollstonecraft" is the only entry listed under "Prostitution," and the Wollstonecraft listing ends with a cross-reference to "Prostitution." Such was the complex and ambiguous heritage Mary Shelley received from her mother.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/shelleybio.html (6158 words)

	WILLIAM GODWIN: His Friends and Contemporaries Ch. 7
		Mr Wollstonecraft speedily married again, but though his wife seems to have done what she could to keep him out of difficulties, he was a man of idle and dissipated habits, and dropped ever lower in fortune and respectability.
		At Laugharne Mr Wollstonecraft led an obscure, besotted life, which could bring nothing but misery on his children, and the constant harassing thought of his daughters was how they could best help him, and wring from their brother Edward the support he had promised to give.
		Mary Wollstonecraft obtained a situation as governess in the family of Lord Kingsborough in Ireland, through some friends of one of her chief patrons at Newington, and sailed for Ireland with these friends, Mr and Mrs Prior, who were crossing to Dublin, in the autumn of 1787.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/godwin/friends/ch7.html (11655 words)

	NSDS > About Our School > History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1819, Edward Wollstonecraft received a grant of 524 acres around the areas known today as Crows Nest and Wollstonecraft.
		It is also believed that a crow's nest, similar to that found on a ship, was erected on the site of the school, in which lookouts were posted to warn of approaching smugglers.
		He married Wollstonecraft's sister and when Wollstonecraft died he inherited his estate, which became known as Berry's Estate.
	www.nthsyddem-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /about/history.htm (269 words)

	coolangatta.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Scotsman Alexander Berry (1781-1873) and his partner Edward Wollstonecraft had received an extensive grant of land, and it was Berry who arrived by sea on 23 June, 1822 with tools, provisions and the people who were to make up the first community of permanent Shoalhaven residents.
		Wollstonecraft died in 1832, but in the years to come, Berry was to be joined by his three brothers and two of his sisters, but none had any direct descendants, and the estate passed to his cousin, John Hay.
		On arrival, Berry recognised that shipping was to be a vital part of his operations, and he wasted no time in having a canal dug to form a new entrance to the river from the Crookhaven.
	www.shoal.net.au /~torchrelay/coolangatta.html (533 words)

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		Project Gutenberg Etext of Letters on Sweden, etc., by Wollstonecraft #3 in our series by Mary Wollstonecraft Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the laws for your country before redistributing these files!!!
		The mother's last words were often quoted by Mary Wollstonecraft in her own last years of distress--"A little patience, and all will be over." After the mother's death, Mary Wollstonecraft left home again, to live with her friend, Fanny Blood, who was at Walham Green.
		The people of every class are constant in their attendance at church; they are very fond of dancing, and the Sunday evenings in Norway, as in Catholic countries, are spent in exercises which exhilarate the spirits without vitiating the heart.
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	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) : Library of Congress Citations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-185 Title: History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland: with letters descriptive of a sail round the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni.
		Heading: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 References: nna Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, 1797-1851 Shelli, Mgeri, 1797-1851 Shelley, Mrs., 1797-1851 Shelley, Percy Bysshe, Mrs., 1797-1851 Shelley, Mary, 1797-1851 Notes: Her Rambles in Germany...
		Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Notes: Her The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, c1980- Control No.: n 85156796 Heading: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcshelleym.htm (1204 words)

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