Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman
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Memoirs of the author of A vindication of the rights of woman
(Broadview literary texts)
Broadview Press, c2001
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-224)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
William Godwin's memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, marks a transition in Godwin's philosophical development from extreme rationalism to the recognition of the moral importance of feeling and sympathy which was to energize his later writings. Memoirs also belongs to a tradition of biographical writing that sought to transform the consciousness of readers by using individual history as an agent of historical change. Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. This modern, scholarly edition, geared for student use, includes a wide range of primary sources, together with excerpts from Godwin's other writings and from biographical models.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
William Godwin: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Appendix A: Biographical Models
From Rousseau's The Confessions
From Boswell's Life of Johnson
From Madame Roland's An Appeal to Impartial Posterity
Appendix B: Works by Godwin
From An Enquiry concerning Political Justice
From The Enquirer
From "Essay of History and Romance"
Appendix C: Letters
From Wollstonecraft, Letters to Imlay
From Godwin & Mary: Letters of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft
Letters Transcribed from the Abinger Manuscripts
Appendix D: Critical Reaction
Contemporary Reviews
From the Analytical Review 27 (March 1798)
From the Anti-Jacobin Review 1 (July 1798)
From the Monthly Review 27 (Nov. 1798)
From the New Annual Register for 1798 (1799)
From the Lady's Monitor 1, No. 17 (Dec. 1801)
Other Responses
From Anna Seward, Letters of Anna Seward
From [Richard Polwhele], The Unsex'd Females
From [Mary Hays], "Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft," Annual Necrology for 1797-8
From [John Fenwick], "Mr. Godwin," Public Characters of 1799-1800
From [C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe], "The Vision of Liberty"
Anon., "Ode to the Memory of Mary Wollstonecraft"
From Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray
From Virginia Woolf, "Four Figures," The Common Reader, 2nd Series
John Whale, "Elegy: for Mary Wollstonecraft"
Appendix E: Variants in the Second Edition
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