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 after the loss of her child.

Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes reviews, additional letters, and documents on the background to the journey.

Strongly autobiographical, Mary and The Wrongs of Woman powerfully complement Wollstonecraft's non-fictional writing, inspired by the French Revolution and the social upheavals that followed.

Covers Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism for a fresh generation of students. This title includes 'Backgrounds and Contexts' section which is broken into four parts - 'Legacies of English Radicalism', 'Education', 'Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Moment' and 'The Wollstonecraft Debate'.

Mary Wollstoncraft's passionate declaration of female independence shattered the stereotype of docile, decorative womanhood, anticipated a new era of equality and established her as the founder of modern feminism.

These three works of fiction two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein are powerfully emotive 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

First published in 1792, Wollstonecraft's book attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and laid out the principles of emancipation - an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner.

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social ...

In this book Mary Wollstonecraft pursues in fiction the themes set forth by her in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). It exposes the legal and social injustices faced by all women, dramatizing the extent to which a married woman under English law was her husband's property.

Three novels, two by Mary Wollstonecraft and one by her daughter, Mary Shelley, here published together for the first time. In Mary , the author expresses her ideas on female emancipation and extends them in Maria . Matilda relates the story of a father's incestuous desire for his daughter.