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	Mary Wollstonecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wollstonecraft was married to the philosopher William Godwin, a prominent atheist and the forefather of the anarchist movement, and was the mother of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
		Mary Wollstonecraft was the second child of seven, and the eldest daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Wollstonecraft.
		Mary was prepared to leave, but was begged to stay by her mother; in exchange for staying, she was given a place to live near Fanny, lodging with an unusual couple: Thomas Taylor "the Platonist" and his wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft (1495 words)

	Mary Shelley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in London, England, the second daughter of famed feminist, educator and writer Mary Wollstonecraft and the equally famous anarchist philosopher, anarchic journalist and atheist dissenter, William Godwin.
		Mary had incorporated a number of different sources into her work, not the least of which was the Promethean myth from Ovid.
		Mary Shelley died of brain cancer on 1 February 1851, aged 53, in London and was interred at St. Peter's Churchyard in Bournemouth, in the English county of Dorset.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley (1600 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797
		The Anglo-Irish feminist, intellectual and writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, was born in London, the second of six children.
		Mary eventually recovered her courage and went to live with William Godwin in Somers-town with whom she had first met at the home of Joseph Johnson in 1791.
		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)

	Mary Wollstonecraft on education
		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was born in Spitalfields in 1759.
		Mary Wollstonecraft was not, however, to build on her fame or to write anything else of note.
		Mary Wollstonecraft maintained that this did not contradict the role of the woman as a mother or a carer or of the role of the woman in the home.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/wollstonecraft.htm (1504 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		Mary Wollstonecraft, a product of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the American and French Revolutions, was born in the 1750's.
		Wollstonecraft, previously uninterested in politics, became inspired and radicalized by the improvements she now thought were possible for humanity.
		Mary began writing The Wrongs of Women: or Maria and during the summer of 1797 couple awaited the birth of their child.
	www.kimwoodbridge.com /maryshel/feminist.shtml (831 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft - MSN Encarta
		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), English author and feminist, born probably in London.
		The moderate success of her first novel, Mary, a Fiction (1788), convinced her to settle in London, where she was employed as a reader and translator.
		She died later that year, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft, who later became the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and a writer on her own.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572590/Mary_Wollstonecraft.html (285 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
		The story of Mary Diana Dods, the illegitimate and, in conventional terms, unattractive daughter of a Scottish earl, who assumed both a male identity and masculine dress, and passed herself off successfully for some time in Parisian society as the husband of Isabel Robinson, and father of 'their' child, is remarkable in itself.
		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.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /120703.html (9577 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		Mary Wollstonecraft was a utopian, a world-regenerator, and nothing in her life escaped her zeal for innovation.
		Wollstonecraft clearly wanted her agonies to mean something, and while the general utility of such pain for the building of character might be recommended to others, she was insistent that in her case it represented a proof of altruism, a mark of spiritual status.
		Wollstonecraft seems to have lived two lives in ironic parallel, the first crudely misunderstanding the second, the second strenuously idealising the first, with no reasonable relation between the particulars of her experience and her heroic portraiture.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /100703.html (8754 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759-September 10, 1797), a revolutionary advocate of equal rights for women, was an inspiration for both the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women's movements.
		Paine and Wollstonecraft were accused in the press of seeking to "poison and inflame the minds of the lower class of his Majesty's subjects to violate their subordination." When Paine was later burnt in effigy for his support of Revolutionary France, there was public talk of subjecting Wollstonecraft to the same treatment.
		Wollstonecraft endured calumny for what she wrote and, for daring to write at all, but was never vengeful or abusive.
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/marywollstonecraft.html (1157 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		Wollstonecraft's most famous work, through which she gained her the reputation as a feminist, was A Vindication of the Rights of Women.
		This is the basis for George's biography of Wollstonecraft, in which she focuses on Mary's position as one of the earliest feminists.
		Taylor states that this book is “a study of Mary Wollstonecraft’s radical imagination, particularly her feminist imaginings.” This book can be difficult to read without prior knowledge of feminism and the history of Britain in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/marywoll.html (1243 words)

	Mary Shelley Biography
		Before Mary Shelley wrote her most popular novel, she published 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 (1817), which was based on journal entries and long letters home to Fanny.
		Though Claire continued in Mary and Percy's household until 1820, she was temporarily diverted by an affair with George Gordon, Lord Byron, during the spring of 1816.
		Persuading Percy and Mary to accompany her to Switzerland to meet Byron, Claire set off with the Shelleys in early May 1816 and eventually moved into a chalet on the banks of Lake Geneva, within walking distance from Villa Diodati, where Byron and his physician, Dr. John William Polidori, were staying.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/shelleybio.html (6158 words)

	Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Creativity
		Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a revolutionary educationalist and feminist writer (her most famous books include Thoughts on the Education of Girls, A Vindication of the Rights of Man, and the follow-up work A Vindication of the Rights of Women).
		Mary Shelley’s father was William Godwin, a political writer and novelist, and the author of An Enquiry into Political Justice, and the novels The Adventures of Caleb Williams and Deloraine.
		After the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin married a woman also named Mary, who is probably the reason for Mary Shelley dropping the “Godwin” in her name for “Wollstonecraft” as a tribute to her mother.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art42089.asp (480 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Mary Woolstonecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The young Wollstonecraft attempted all of the respectable employment options for unmarried middle-class women: she worked as a paid companion in the fashionable resort of Bath, as a governess in an aristocratic family, and as the proprietor of a school.
		Wollstonecraft reasons that if women are indeed capable of being moral beings, then their education should be designed to help them achieve a moral and intellectual development equal (or very nearly so) to men's.
		Wollstonecraft's last important work, the unfinished novel, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, appeared posthumously in Godwin's candid Memoirs of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798), which inspired scores of attacks on her moral character and radical politics.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/wollstonecraft_m.htm (2948 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Mary Wollstonecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Wollstonecraft ridiculed prevailing notions that women were incapable of self-sufficiency, noting that most women were uneducated and confined to the household and therefore unable to develop talents.
		Wollstonecraft and her sister established a school for women in the 1780s and she went on to serve as governess in the family of Lord Kingsborough before settling in London to pursue a career as a writer and editor.
		An introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft, often cited as the "mother of feminism," and her place within the feminist movement.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75862.html (333 words)

	Mary Shelley
		Mary Shelley was 21 when the book was published; she started to write it when she was 18.
		In her childhood Mary Shelley was left to educate herself amongst her father's intellectual circle, the critic Hazlitt, the essayist Lamb, the poet Coleridge and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who came into Godwin's circle in 1812.
		Mary Shelley never married, but she flirted with the young French writer Prosper Merimee, and hoped to marry Maj. Aubrey Beauclerk.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /mshelley.htm (1730 words)

	Amazon.com: Mary Wollstonecraft: Books: Janet Todd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) gained an early horror of traditional marriage from observing the relationship of her despotic father and submissive mother.
		Mary Wollstonecraft may be called "the mother of feminism," but motherhood in all its various aspects represented little but trouble to her.
		Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects" (London: J. Johnson, 1792) had a profound influence on U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, who became one of her earliest and most influential supporters in the United States.
	www.amazon.com /Mary-Wollstonecraft-Janet-Todd/dp/0231121857 (1559 words)

	Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Shelley was the daughter of the radicals William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, both of whom sought to reform European society by means of ideas generated by the French Revolution.
		Wollstonecraft died shortly after giving birth to her daughter, but the young Mary read all of her mother's writings by the age of 10.
		Mary Shelley's life with Percy Shelley, much of which was spent in Italy, was also marked by loss: Three of their four children died before the age of three, and Percy Shelley himself died in 1822, a month before his 30th birthday and after only six years of marriage.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/wives/writers/shelley.html (390 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft @ Catharton Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London in 1759.
		Wollstonecraft replied to this almost immediately in 'A Vindication Of The Rights Of Man', and a more famous counter attack was later made by Thomas Paine in his similarly titled 'Rights Of Man' books in 1791 and 1792.
		Wollstonecraft's second daughter Mary survived however, and eventually married a poet named Percy Shelley, and as Mary Shelley she went on to write 'Frankenstein'.
	www.catharton.com /authors/7.htm (809 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
		Mary, at eighteen was able to exert some pressure upon her father to live in the village of Walworth which was near London and her friend, Fanny Blood.
		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)

	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Biography and Works
		Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797, in London.
		Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who died in childbirth, was one of the first feminists.
		Mary Shelley died in London on February 1, 1851, probably of a brain tumor.
	www.online-literature.com /shelley_mary (406 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		In 1784 Mary Wollstonecraft opened a school in Newington Green, a small village close to Hackney, with her sister Eliza and a friend, Fanny Blood.
		Whereas advocates of parliamentary reform such as Jeremy Bentham and John Cartwright had rejected the idea of female suffrage, Wollstonecraft argued that the rights of man and the rights of women were one and the same thing.
		Mary married William Godwin in March, 1797 and soon afterwards, a second daughter, Mary, was born.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Wwollstonecraft.htm (892 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		Mary Wollstonecraft was born in the 1750's, a major protester for women's rights.
		So, at age 19, Mary became a paid companion and, at age 21, stated that she would never marry because marriage gave the husband ownership of all the property, including herself.
		Sadly, Mary got an infection, and died on September 10, 1797.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/wollstonecraft.html (358 words)

	UTEL: Mary Wollstonecraft Page
		In all her writing, Wollstonecraft struggled to break conventional forms, and to communicate her ideas to different audiences.
		Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever eight days after the birth of her second daughter, the future Mary Shelley.
		Wollstonecraft's political opponents seized gleefully on the details of her unorthodox personal life, and condemned her as an 'unsex'd female'.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /utel/authors/wollstonecraftm.html (446 words)

	MARY AND MARIA(WOLLSTONECRAFT);MATILDA(SHELLEY) - Mary Wollstonecraft - Penguin Classics
		In Mary (1788), Mary Wollstonecraft explores the position of an alienated intellectual woman and, in portraying her struggle against the constraints of a claustrophobic feminine world, began a line that would include the more substantial heroines of Jane Eyre and Villette.
		Mary Shelley wrote Matilda in 1819, while in mourning for her first son.
		William Godwin, Mary's father, found its subject of father-daughter incest so 'disgusting and detestable' that he refused to publish it and the work remained suppressed for over a century.
	www.penguinclassics.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140433715,00.html (190 words)

	Mary Wollstonecraft
		In 1784 Mary Wollstonecraft opened a school in Newington Green, a small village close to Hackney, with her sister Eliza and a friend,
		Mary Wollstonecraft was upset by Burke's attack on her friend and she decided to defend him by writing a pamphlet
		The ideas in Wollstonecraft's book were truly revolutionary and caused tremendous controversy and was described Wollstonecraft as a "hyena in petticoats".
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRwollstonecraft.htm (695 words)

	Mary Wollsonecraft resources at Erratic Impact's Feminism Web
		What Mary Wollstonecraft did was relatively simple in premise but complicated in reality: she applied the concept of inalienable rights to women as well as men.
		A self-taught native of London, Mary Wollstonecraft worked as a governess, school teacher, and headmistress before becoming convinced that the young women she tried to teach had already been effectively enslaved by their social training in subordination to men.
		(1787) Wollstonecraft proposed the deliberate extrapolation of Enlightenment ideals to include education for women, whose rational natures are no less capable of intellectual achievement than are those of men...
	www.erraticimpact.com /~feminism/html/women_wollstonecraft_mary.htm (459 words)

	Wollstonecraft
		A self-taught native of London, Mary Wollstonecraft worked as a schoolteacher and headmistress at a school she established at Newington Green with her sister Eliza.
		The foundation of morality in all human beings, male or female, is their common possession of the faculty of reason, Wollstonecraft argued, and women must claim their equality by accepting its unemotional dictates.
		Excessive concern for romantic love and physical desirability, she believed, are not the natural conditions of female existence but rather the socially-imposed means by which male domination enslaves them.
	www.philosophypages.com /ph/woll.htm (416 words)

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