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Wollstonecraft, M. (1989) The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.
J.
Todd and M.
Butler, London: William Pickering, 7 vols. (Contains all of Wollstonecraft’s works, which are listed individually below.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1787) Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 4, 1989. (Wollestonecraft’s first published work; a handbook on female education probably based on her own practical experience.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1788) Mary: a Fiction, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 1, 1989. (A novel of ideas written to show ‘that a genius will educate itself’; illustrates Wollstonecraft’s early view of the course of ideal moral development, of the disadvantages of marriage for women, and of what would constitute an acceptable female social role.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1788) Original Stories from Real Life: With Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 4, 1989. (A children’s storybook carefully designed to promote moral development; the most detailed working-out of Wollstonecraft’s views on moral education.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1790) A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 5, 1989. (An impassioned defence, by appeal to a rationalist as opposed to a sentimentalist moral philosophy, of Price’s welcome of the French Revolution against Burke’s attack; lays the foundation for Wollstonecraft’s feminist politics.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1792) A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Moral and Political Subjects, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 5, 1989. (Attacks conventional female education, morality and gender role as presented by various contemporary authors of educational and conduct books, principally by Rousseau in Émile.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1794) An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it has produced within Europe, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 6, 1989. (Wollstonecraft’s reaction to the increasing violence of the French Revolution; historically derivative but useful for signs of development in her political thought.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1796) Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 6, 1989. (Provide probably the most accessible introduction to Wollstonecraft’s thought; they suggest a movement away from rationalism towards a greater interest in imagination and sensibility under the impact of personal experience.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1798) The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, in W.
Godwin (ed.) Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: William Pickering, vol. 1, 1989. (Unfinished; her first engagement with the wrongs of lower-class women; suggests that her earlier political and moral ideas, particularly on sensibility, were in a state of constant flux.) |
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1979) Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.
R.
Wardle, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Useful for following the development of Wollstonecraft’s self-conception; also one of the few sources of knowledge of what she read.) |