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  1. Becoming Wollstonecraft
    the interconnection of her life and works
    Author: Ayres, Brenda
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than... more

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    "Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not previously been associated with Wollstonecraft, such as the story of Reverand Mr Joshua Waterhouse. Although there are over fifty book-length biographies published on Wollstonecraft, very few agree on much about Wollstonecraft. She seems to have become an "everywoman", or a figure unfixed in time and protean. Deemed the Mother of Feminism, like feminism itself, she is what people have wanted her to be and is by no means an immutable or universal personage. A study of her life as evident by her works and vice versa, this monograph intends to refocus the image of Wollstonecraft for students and scholars, informed by biographical texts on Wollstonecraft and on those people in Wollstonecraft's life and acquaintance, historical context, and exposition from her works"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781032649412; 1032649410; 9781040007709; 1040007708; 9781040007792; 1040007791
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    Series: Routledge research in women's literature
    Subjects: Women authors, English; Feminists; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Other subjects: Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Becoming Wollstonecraft
    The Interconnection of Her Life and Works
    Author: Ayres, Brenda
    Published: 2024; ©2024
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis Group, Oxford

    Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright... more

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    Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Becoming Wollstonecraft -- Wollstonecraft in Miniature -- Notes -- Part I: Becoming the Ephemeron -- Chapter 1: The Oldest Wollstonecraft Daughter: Becoming a Feminist -- Notes -- Chapter 2: "Misery Haunts this House": Rescuing Bess -- Marital Covering -- "The poor brat" -- "Legal prostitution" -- The Sanctity of Marriage -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Wollstonecrafts' Melancholy and Madness -- "The iron sceptre of tyranny" -- Buried Alive -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Becoming the Educator -- Failing as Headmistress -- Becoming or Not Becoming the Governess -- The Emergence of Pedagogical Theories -- Pedagogy in Rights of Woman -- Play for Children -- Children's Literature -- Discipline -- Children's Education -- Notes -- Chapter 5: A Mother of Much, Many, and More or Less -- Wollstonecraft's Notions About Motherhood -- Separating Mother from Child -- Wollstonecraft Becomes a Mother Before She Becomes a Mother -- Literary Mother -- Notes -- Part II: "She Believed, Loved and Lived" -- Chapter 6: "A Sexless Mind," Overstrained Sensibility, and Sapphism -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Melting In and Out of Love -- Reverend Mr. Joshua Waterhouse -- Henry Dyson Gabell -- Mr. Church -- Neptune Blood -- George Ogle -- John Hewlett -- Thomas Holcroft -- John Opie -- Count Graf von Schlabrendorf -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Around Johnson's Table -- Joseph Johnson and His Elastic Circle -- A Fuseli Nightmare -- Thomas Christie and Analytical Review -- Enquiry Concerning William Godwin -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Barrier Love and Gilbert Imlay -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Wollstonecraft and Lucretia -- Suicidal Tendencies in Her Letters -- Wishing for Death -- The Great English Malady -- The Crux: What Drove Her to Her First Suicide Attempt in May 1795? -- In the Arms of Morpheus.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781040007709
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series: Routledge Research in Women's Literature Series
    Scope: 1 online resource (366 pages)
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