Mary Wollstonecraft broke new ground in the battle for women’s rights with the publication of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'—but there's far more to her legacy than just one book.

Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin on Aug. 30, 1797 and raised by her father, an anarchist and political philosopher named ...

And it’s a lost vision, in my telling, that originates with the thought of the late-18th century English philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft. Carrie Gress’ new book tracing modern feminism’s ...

Mary Shelley, in an undated ... It’s 1816, and 18-year-old Mary Godwin, the daughter of the radical philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, ... The Book Review Podcast: ...

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Toni Morrison, ... “This book bears the traces of their struggles as well as my own—and some of the things we all found that help,” Biggs writes of her subjects.

Mary Wollstonecraft had few illusions: women's emancipation would be as difficult to live up to as it would be to achieve. On the eve of the 200th anniversary of the first feminist manifesto, Liz ...

The idea that electricity really was the stuff of life and that it might be used to bring back the dead was certainly a familiar one in the kinds of circles in which the young Mary Wollstonecraft ...

When Mary Wollstonecraft's book on recent French political events was published in 1794, John Adams already knew first-hand about revolution. He read the book for the first time in 1796, and ...

Later in his review of my book, professor Schlueter uses the example of spirited and intelligent women, presumably, to demonstrate what will happen in the lives of women who follow Wollstonecraft ...