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About New World Encyclopedia. Read View source View history. La France et Gilbert Imlay [ modifier modifier le code ]. Article Talk. True virtue in both men and women consisted in the imitation of God, and could only be cultivated through the unimpeded development of natural faculties common to both sexes, including reason and passion. Whilst she considered Johnson to be a good friend, she had meanwhile embarked on a rather complicated affair with the artist Henry Fuseli.

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In May , she attempted to commit suicide, probably with laudanum. In addition to her larger philosophical arguments, Wollstonecraft also lays out a specific educational plan. I am a little singular in my thoughts of love and friendship; I must have the first place or none. In London, Wollstonecraft lived on Dolben Street, in Southwark ; an up-and-coming area following the opening of the first Blackfriars Bridge in May you never know by experience what you have made me endure.

In her first novel, Mary: A Fiction , the eponymous heroine is forced into a loveless marriage for economic reasons; she fulfils her desire for love and affection outside marriage with two passionate romantic friendships , one with a woman and one with a man.

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In Persuasion , Austen's characterization of Anne Eliot as well as her late mother before her as better qualified than her father to manage the family estate also echoes a Wollstonecraft thesis. Kegan Paul, Mary Wollstonecraft was born April 27, , the second child of seven, and the eldest daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Wollstonecraft. She also persuaded her sister to leave her husband after she started suffering depression, which sadly resulted in her sister becoming a social pariah.

It sold well and was reviewed positively by most critics. I have not the least expectation that I can now ever know happiness again. In Pride and Prejudice , Mr Wickham seems to be based upon the sort of man Wollstonecraft claimed that standing armies produce, while the sarcastic remarks of protagonist Elizabeth Bennet about "female accomplishments" closely echo Wollstonecraft's condemnation of these activities.

Autres travaux [ modifier modifier le code ]. In her arguments for republican virtue, Wollstonecraft invokes an emerging middle-class ethos in opposition to what she views as the vice-ridden aristocratic code of manners. Charles-Alexandre Linois. In order to make a living, Wollstonecraft, her sisters and Blood set up a school together in Newington Green , a Dissenting community.

At home and with friends Mary read books , magazines and newspapers , and learned to consider the social issues troubling Great Britain. Neither of Wollstonecraft's novels depict successful marriages, although she posits such relationships in the Rights of Woman. Collins, London, One month later, she published the second edition bearing her name, establishing her reputation as a social reformer.