Bibliography about M. Wollstonecraft

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES ABOUT MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT


 

Bouten, Jacob. Mary Wollstonecraft and The Beginnings of Female Emancipation in France and England Amersterdam: Amsterdam University. 1923.
This book attempts to relate Mary Wollstonecraft and early French philosophers, as well as studying the beginning of female emancipation in France and England. Chapters include: The Main Theories Regarding the Position of Women, The Beginnings of A Feminist Movement in France, Radical Feminism: Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. It also has an extensive bibliography

Chaapel family papers, 1852-1942, bulk 1874-1899.
Consist primarily of writings by Jay Chaapel (1829-1902)-free thinker, spiritualist, lecturer, and editor--on a variety of topics: Shaker communities in New England, including a biographical essay on Ann Lee; descriptions of places in Maine, ca.1898; the burial of John Brown; thoughts on spiritualism, love and marriage, women's rights, people, and events. There are holograph copies of writings by others, including extracts from 16 letters, 1793-95, of Mary Wollstonecraft to [Gilbert] Imlay accompanied by extensive biographical notes on Wollstonecraft. Correspondence includes an 1879 letter from an elderly Shaker sister criticizing the celibate life, three letters from Jay Chaapel to his first wife, Calphurnia Crofut, a few letters of other family members, including his children (Harry, Ralph, and Belle Chaapel), and one letter from J. S. Coxey to Belle Chaapel.

Detre, Jean. A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1975

Flexner, Eleanor. Mary Wollstonecraft. New York: McCann and Geoghegan. 1979
A biography that reveals Mary's life in great length and details. Also, tells the start of her life goals.

Jebb, Camilla. Mary Wollstonecraft. London: Herbert & Daniel; Chicago: F.G. Browne & Co. 1913.
Contains an introduction.--Calendar of principal events.--A vindication of the Rights of Men.--A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.-- An historical and moral view of the origin of the French Revolution.--Letters.--Mary: A Fiction

Lorch, Jennifer. The Making of a Radical Feminist. New York: Berg St. Martin's Press. 1990
This is a feminism literature book that reveals the struggles of Mary's goals of education for women. Images included within text.

Mazel, Ella, ed. Ahead of Her Time: A Sampler of the Life and Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft . Larchmont, New York: Bernel Books. 1995.
A good collection of the excerpts of letters and writings on: Women's Rights; The Rights of Man; The French Revolution; Education; Moral Values; The Slavery of Marriage; Social Justice; Wealth and poverty; The Evils of Power and Property; The Venality of Politicians; And her own account of "Her Struggle for Independence; Her Unconventional LIfe; Her Ill-Fated Liaison with Gilbert Imlay; and Her Finding Happiness at Last with William Godwin before Her Early Death".

Nixo, Edna. Mary Wollstonecraft: Her Life and Times. London: Aldine House. 1971. Solomon, Barbara H. and Berggren, Paula S. eds. A Mary Wollstonecraft Reader. New York: New American Library. 1983. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Social Pioneer London: Millington Books Ltd. 1976.
A biography of Mary Wollstonecraft divided into four helpful sections. This biography presents an interesting angle on a life already well-researched. It presents Mary as not only an original thinker but a woman of the "future".

Wardle, Ralph. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. 1951.
A thorough biography of Mary Wollstonecraft which is very readable.

 

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