Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
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- Synopsis
- At the height of the French Revolution, a thirty-three-year-old Englishwoman arrived in the port of Calais. She was a foreign correspondent, commissioned by a famous London publisher to write about all the momentous events since the fall of the Bastille. The watchwords of the Revolution--liberty, fraternity, and equality--spoke to her own deepest desires. Since childhood, she'd battled injustice: from her father, who had prepared only his male children for meaningful futures; from her mother, who had clearly favored her older brother, Ned. She was tall and pretty but had no dowry or inheritance; only her courage and tenacity pushed her forward. Everything she knew she had taught herself. She had fought to succeed in the man's world of professional writing. Author of the famous book "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and role model to many, this is the life story of Mary Wollstonecraft, a woman who dared to establish a mark of her own!
- Copyright:
- 2001
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 337 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780743214704
- Publisher:
- Simon & Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 02/03/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Diane Jacobs
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.