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Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Travel
'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her li ...Show more
Lodore by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Rediscovered Classics Ser.
Also published as The Beautiful Widow, Mary Shelley's penultimate novel explores the web of relationships between three women, bound together by the exacting Lord Lodore: his estranged wife Cornelia, a woman ruled by her mother and the norms of aristocratic society; his daughter Ethel, raised in the wil ...Show more
Mary and Maria, Matilda by Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Classics
Includes stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man aft ...Show more
Mary and the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I have lately written...a tale, to illustrate an opinion of mine, that a genius will educate itself.' Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. Expressed most forcefully in her Vindication of the Rights of Woman ...Show more
Mathilda and Other Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Mathilda is Mary Shelley's haunting story of an incestuous and fatal love. The narrative traces the teenaged Mathilda's reunion with her unnamed father, and the development of their obsessive bond that culminates in suicide. Shelley's own father, William Godwin, was so disturbed after reading the manusc ...Show more
The Feminist Papers - A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: Philosophy | Series: Women's Voices Ser.
Part of the Gibbs Smith Women's Voices series: A collection of literary voices written by, and for, extraordinary women--to encourage, challenge, and inspire. By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Womentackles womens-rights-as-human-rights decades before the ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits ...Show more
The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to Eng ...Show more
Vintage Monsters Frankenstein/Sexing the Cherry by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classics
"Vintage Monsters" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley and Jeanette Winterson's "Sexing the Cherry."