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The woman without a name

February 12, 2014 By Ying 6 Comments

Hello, friends. Recently, I mentioned reading and loving Claire Tomalin's biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. I've now become completely obsessed with the question of Mary Wollstonecraft's elder daughter, Fanny. Fanny was born in 1794 in revolutionary Paris, the result of a short, passionate affair between Wollstonecraft and a handsome, fickle, frequently dishonest American named Gilbert Imlay. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: biography, Fanny Godwin, Fanny Imlay, Fanny Wollstonecraft, genius, Janet Todd, Judith Chernaik, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, reading, Romantic poetry, suicide, William Godwin

Mary Wollstonecraft

January 15, 2014 By Ying 3 Comments

Hello, friends. A couple of days ago, I finished reading Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft. This is Tomalin's first book, it's forty years old (originally published in 1974), and it remains the definitive biography of the first feminist. I read the revised edition of 1992, when it was re-issued to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft's incendiary A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Things I Read Tagged With: biography, Claire Tomalin, feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, reading

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