Mary: A Fiction
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Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the tragic story of a woman's successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. Compos
Title page from Mary: A Fiction; epigraph by Rousseau reads: "L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus éleve et nourrit le génie" ("the exercise of the most sublime virtues raises and nourishes genius")
Rousseau's Julie, or the New Heloise (1761), from which Wollstonecraft drew the epigraph for Mary
Otto Scholderer's Young Girl Reading (1883); in Mary, Wollstonecraft criticizes women who imagine themselves as sentimental heroines.
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie (c. 1791)
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconvention
Mary: A Fiction
…Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the tragic story of a woman's successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. Composed while Wollstonecraft was a governess in…
c. 1797 portrait
Frontispiece to the 1791 edition of Original Stories from Real Life engraved by William Blake
The insurrection of 10 August 1792