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You will smile at an observation that has just occurred to me―I consider those minds as the most strong and original, whose imagination acts as the stimulus to their senses, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in a letter contemplating the role of the imagination in human relationships. Enlightenment feminist and famed author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft was also one of the most distinctive letter writers of the eighteenth century. This volume contains all of her known correspondence.
Wollstonecraft talked and thought on paper; her letters were a large part of the drama of her life. In them she grows from an awkward child of fourteen to the woman of thirty-eight facing death in childbirth. Where the letters of "bluestocking" writers such as Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot have a public quality, Wollstonecraft's letters―whether written in haste or carefully composed, opinionated, or vulnerable―stand out among those of other contemporary writers for their candor and lack of sentimentality. They create a palpable world, a sense of inner vitality, revealing a woman of consistent character who nonetheless struggled to reconcile disparate aspects of her life integrity and sexual longing; the needs and duties of a woman; motherhood and intellectual life; fame and domesticity; reason and passion.
Written in cramped lodgings and swaying boats, in the wilds of Scandinavia and the chill of Paris in winter, these letters record not a finished, ordered life viewed retrospectively but the dynamic process of living. Collectively, they form a remarkable work of autobiography that reveals the many dimensions of Wollstonecraft's genius.
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Wollstonecraft talked and thought on paper; her letters were a large part of the drama of her life. In them she grows from an awkward child of fourteen to the woman of thirty-eight facing death in childbirth. Where the letters of "bluestocking" writers such as Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot have a public quality, Wollstonecraft's letters―whether written in haste or carefully composed, opinionated, or vulnerable―stand out among those of other contemporary writers for their candor and lack of sentimentality. They create a palpable world, a sense of inner vitality, revealing a woman of consistent character who nonetheless struggled to reconcile disparate aspects of her life integrity and sexual longing; the needs and duties of a woman; motherhood and intellectual life; fame and domesticity; reason and passion.
Written in cramped lodgings and swaying boats, in the wilds of Scandinavia and the chill of Paris in winter, these letters record not a finished, ordered life viewed retrospectively but the dynamic process of living. Collectively, they form a remarkable work of autobiography that reveals the many dimensions of Wollstonecraft's genius.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd,The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft,Columbia University Press,0231131429,Essays,European - General,Europe,Authors, English - 18th century,Authors, English;18th century;Correspondence.,Feminists - Great Britain,Feminists;Great Britain;Correspondence.,Wollstonecraft, Mary,1759-1797,18th century,Authors, English,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures,Biography Autobiography Women,Biography Autobiography/Women,Biography / Autobiography,Correspondence,European,Feminists,General,Great Britain,Great Britain/British Isles,History General,History/General,LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,LITERARY CRITICISM,LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General,Literary,Literary Collections,Literary studies general,Literature literary studies,Literature/Classics,Literature Classics,Literature Texts,Non-Fiction,Scholarly/Undergraduate,UNIVERSITY PRESS,United States,Wollstonecraft, Mary,Wollstonecraft, Mary,,Women,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures,Biography Autobiography Women,Biography Autobiography/Women,General,History General,History/General,LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays,LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General,Literary,Women,Biography / Autobiography,1759-1797,18th century,Authors, English,Correspondence,Feminists,Great Britain,Wollstonecraft, Mary,,Literary Collections,Literary Criticism,Literature Classics,Literary studies general,Literature literary studies,Literature Texts
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