A different face
Subtitle: the life of Mary Wollstonecraft
By: Emily W. Sunstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.; Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Description: Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the eighteenth-century classic, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, did not march through life toward specific goals of feminism. Instead she fought her way to personal independence with a passionate, stubborn intensity at a time when women--presumed inferior--were narrowly circumscribed by law, custom, and religious belief. She demanded also a ration of happiness and sexual fulfillment, refusing to conform to the model of a submissive, decorative, domestically useful woman. Possessed of great intellectual ambitious, and largely self-educated, she rebelled against injustice everywhere she perceived it, and gradually became a political radical.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Works by Mary Wollstonecraft": p. [xiii]-xiv.
Includes index.