Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
(1759–1797)

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British writer, philosopher, and feminist; during her brief career she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. After two ill-fated affairs, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin and they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.
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Works

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
Mary: A Fiction (1788)[1]
Original Stories from Real Life: With Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness (1788)
The Female Reader: or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse; selected from the best writers, and disposed under proper heads; for the improvement of young women. By Mr. Cresswick, teacher of elocution. To which is prefixed a preface, containing some hints on female education (1789)
A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke (1790), a reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1791)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Moral and Political Subjects (1792)
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution; and the Effect It Has produced in Europe (1794)
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
- The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria
- Lessons
- Letters and miscellaneous pieces
- Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation
- Fragment of Letters on the Management of Infants
- Letters to Mr. Johnson
- Cave of Fancy
- On Poetry
- Hints

As translator

Of the Importance of Religious Opinions (1788), by Jacques Necker
Young Grandison. A Series of Letters from Young Persons to Their Friends (1790), by Maria Geertruida van de Werken de Cambon
Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children; with an introductory address to parents (1790), by Christian Gotthilf Salzmann

Works about Wollstonecraft

Books

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1885), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, part of the Eminent Women Series (transcription project)

Encyclopedia articles

"Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1906)
"Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Godwin, Mrs. Mary," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
"Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Articles

"A Pioneer of the Movement," in The Case for Women's Suffrage (pp. 164−189), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, (ed.) by Brougham Villiers, London: T. Fisher Unwin (1907)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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