... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND HER WORK, THE VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. FEW women, says one of her biographers, have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and few have been the objects of such censure. ...

... It need hardly be said that Mary Wollstonecraft anticipated the change that has come about in the public mind as to what is needful in the education of women. . . . In another all-important respect Mary Wollstonecraft was ahead of her time, and may ...

... y of seeing how Mary Wollstonecraft tries to prove this point. I wonder if she originally thought out the idea, or if she gained it from Lady Mary Montagu, whose famous Letters were a classic in Mary Wollstonecraft's day? Lady ...

... forms of physical excess, and with this a truer and nobler ideal of manly virtue. In one other important respect Mary Wollstonecraft was ahead of her own time in to women, and in line with the foremost thinkers rd on this subject in ours. Henrik Ibsen ...

... characteristic of the Woman movement of the nineteenth century. A full hundred years before Mary Wollstonecraft published her Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Astell had written a Defence of the Female Sex, Reflections on Matrimony, and a little ...

... his wife. Drink and unrestrained selfishness had utterly degraded him. Such was Mary's father. Mrs. Wollstonecraft was her husband's most abject slave, but was in turn—as Mary points out in her book is almost sure to be the casea tyrant herself. She approved ...

... instalment completes our republication of this interesting work—the literary pioneer of the modern Woman Movement. Mary Wollstonecraft intended to write a second volume, but never carried out the design. This work attracted an attention and aroused an ...

... newspapers, and heard it till I am tired of hearing it. For generations they have delivered themselves of such talk as Mary Wollstonecraft has, in her monumental JULY 28, 1898. work, here republished, quoted and criticised ; and though there are now some ...

... But whatever hopes of political freedom were entertained by the morally emancipated French women—with whom our own Mary Wollstonecraft was in close sympathy—in the early years of the Revolution, were destined to be frustrated before the close of the century; ...

... continues to be used in the parish. Curiously enough in the ancient church of St. Pancras was erected an altar tomb to Mary Wollstonecraft, the authoress of The Vindication of the Rights of Women, and her husband, William Godwin. The Brewers Company also ...

... SYDNEY SMITH ON FEMALE EDUCATION. (Published in the Edinburgh Review in 1810.) PROBABLY next in order of time to Mary Wollstonecraft's' work, comes the brilliant Sydney Smith's famous plea for women. It was published in the Edinburgh Review at a time ...

... SEPTEMBER 8, 1896. thought and spoke upon the educational, s ocial and legal position of women first were such women as Mary Wollstonecraft, who was as beautiful as she was gifted ; Mrs. Jamieson, whose gentleness and charm are recorded by all who knew her ...