ABOUT her first published work, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, Mary Wollstonecraft said, "I felt what I wrote!" Indeed, her writings reveal an evolution of her feelings, from belief in moral ...

Mother and daughter knew each other for only 10 days. As was common in late 18th-century London, the author and early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft died of childbed fever less than two weeks after ...

Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years. Though considered the mother of first-wave feminism, the 18th-century philosopher long endured her share of trolls refusing to take ...

A statue of a nude woman unveiled in London to honor feminist Mary Wollstonecraft has prompted criticism from some social media users. The statue was unveiled Tuesday on Newington Green in the ...

Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's biography of the pioneering feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, and her novelist daughter, Mary Shelley. Wollstonecraft, famous for her polemic A ...

It is said that the winners write the history, and this is very much true of women’s history. So, today, when most think about the women’s movement or “feminism,” it’s a story that begins in the 1960s ...

Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the pioneering feminist text “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” lived just 10 days after the birth of her daughter, Mary Shelley. For the future author of ...

You wouldn’t know the significance of the small gravestone, tucked behind St. Pancras Old Church, London, if it weren’t for all the mud. There’s a meter radius of mud surrounding the grave of Mary ...

A third Wollstonecraft biography, Janet Todd’s Mary Wollstonecraft (2000), apparently errs in the other direction by presenting Wollstonecraft as a “moody drama queen” (Gordon’s words) so prone to ...

This essay examines how Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman charts women's vexed relationships to the conceptual categories of the human and the animal in eighteenth-century ...

Charlotte Gordon tells their story in Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley via a dual biography.