King endorsed nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, encouraging fellow activists to fight for equality through marches, boycotts, and other peaceful means. Martin Luther King, Jr. was also a very eloquent speaker and writer. The speeches he wrote were heard, repeated, and through publication...
Mary Wollstonecraft lived by her pen and wrote trenchant critiques of the role of women and marriage in late 18th century British society. She died aged 38, a few days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley. She is often remembered for writing theVindication of the Rights of...
Mary Wollstonecraft lived by her pen and wrote trenchant critiques of the role of women and marriage in late 18th century British society. She died aged 38, a few days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley. She is often remembered for writing theVindication of the Rights of...
But in her 2021 book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision (Notre Dame UP, 2021), Erika Bachiochi shows that Wollstonecraft wrote extensively about duties and responsibilities. Further, unlike advocates of free love in later centuries or the champions of the Sexual Revolution, ...
by Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft wrote a compelling case for the rights of women during a time when the Enlightenment was a giant French boys club. She also, coincidentally, is the mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. FromWikipedia: ...
Writer Mary Shelley published her most famous novel, Frankenstein, in 1818. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously published Mathilde. Early Life Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August...
Writer Mary Shelley published her most famous novel, Frankenstein, in 1818. She wrote several other books, including Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835) and the posthumously published Mathilde. Early Life Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on August...
Literally, it begins with the midwife showing up at the door of a currently-in-labor Mary Wollstonecraft as she’s about to welcome her second daughter into the world. I’ve barely scratched the surface so far but I’m looking forward to the experience of reading this one. The second ...
InWollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics, Cambridge intellectual historian Sylvana Tomaselli takes a holistic approach to the thinking of Mary Wollstonecraft, arguing that she should be remembered as much more than just the author ofA Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Writing in the after...
the abstracting of ideas from politics by William Godwin (Mary Wollstonecraft’s husband), and also introduced me to an interesting new figure, the overly self important bad poet and rabble rouser, John Thelwall. I wish some of these articles had been included in my Romantic Literature class ...