Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1798)
Mary Wollstonecraft provided analysis of the condition of women in modern society, through a moral and political theory.
Her reflections on the status of females were part of an attempt to have a comprehensive understanding of human relations within a civilization characterized by greed.
She first wrote about the education of daughters, and then wrote about politics, history, philosophy, translations, and novels, and travel accounts. Her famous book is Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Generally, she contributed to feminism.
Mary Wollstonecraft lived during an era in which a qualified female was expected to function as lady’s companion, a schoolteacher, or a governess. She was not an exception.
Mary Wollstonecraft, her friend Fanny Blood, and her sisters Eliza and Everina, established a school in 1784, but the project encountered serious financial difficulties, and subsequently collapsed.
Mary Wollstonecraft met the moral and political thinker, the Reverend Richard Price, and that was an important moment in her life. She wrote Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) to defend Price against Edmund Burke’s criticisms of him.
Some of her arguments in Vindication of the Rights of Women included that marriage was nothing but a property relation, and that women received education that failed to enable them to realize the expectations of the society of them, and mostly guaranteed them unhappy life.
Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to a daughter, Fanny (she named her after her friend), but she attempted to take her own life twice in 1795. On Education:
Because she was interested in education, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote about methods of teaching. She emphasized morality and best ways to instill values in young children.
In her book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), she points that parents have the duty of ensuring that reason should cultivate and govern our instincts, in order to prevent instincts from running
Mary Wollstonecraft provided analysis of the condition of women in modern society, through a moral and political theory.
Her reflections on the status of females were part of an attempt to have a comprehensive understanding of human relations within a civilization characterized by greed.
She first wrote about the education of daughters, and then wrote about politics, history, philosophy, translations, and novels, and travel accounts. Her famous book is Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792). Generally, she contributed to feminism.
Mary Wollstonecraft lived during an era in which a qualified female was expected to function as lady’s companion, a schoolteacher, or a governess. She was not an exception.
Mary Wollstonecraft, her friend Fanny Blood, and her sisters Eliza and Everina, established a school in 1784, but the project encountered serious financial difficulties, and subsequently collapsed.
Mary Wollstonecraft met the moral and political thinker, the Reverend Richard Price, and that was an important moment in her life. She wrote Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) to defend Price against Edmund Burke’s criticisms of him.
Some of her arguments in Vindication of the Rights of Women included that marriage was nothing but a property relation, and that women received education that failed to enable them to realize the expectations of the society of them, and mostly guaranteed them unhappy life.
Mary Wollstonecraft gave birth to a daughter, Fanny (she named her after her friend), but she attempted to take her own life twice in 1795. On Education:
Because she was interested in education, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote about methods of teaching. She emphasized morality and best ways to instill values in young children.
In her book, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), she points that parents have the duty of ensuring that reason should cultivate and govern our instincts, in order to prevent instincts from running