Mary wollstonecraft a revolutionary life

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Throughout this humane and absorbing biography, Todd usefully places the writings, like A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in their historical context, but in the end she finds Wollstonecraft's life and her letters more modern in their outspoken sensibility than her formal literary legacy.

The New Yorker The only full-length scholarly biography to date, it is full of fascinating detail, absorbing, and often surprising. The New Republic The hard work and family values attributed to the middle class hardly obtained in the Wollstonecraft entourage, as Janet Todd makes clear in this thorough biography...Todd excels at depicting her subject's evolving personality and layered intellect.

Mary wollstonecraft a revolutionary life pdf

Washington Post Todd... draws heavily on Wollstonecraft's letters in this thoughtful biography... Wollstonecraft traveled uncharted waters: her voice, though egotistical, is unquestionably modern, a ' consciousness... sure of its significance, individuality and authenticity.

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