Mary Wollstonecraft : philosophical mother of coeducation / Susan Laird.
Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England ; New York, New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Series: | Continuum library of educational thought.
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| Summary: | Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises. Her work on coeducational thought was a major early modern influence upon the development of a post-Enlightenment tradition, and continues to have vital relevance today. Celebrated as an early modern feminist, abolitionist and socialist philosopher, Wollstonecraft had little formal schooling, but st. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441143532 144114353X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |