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Mary Wollstonecraft : her life and times

Archive Print Item: Pencheon Collection NIX

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Type of record: Book

Title: Mary Wollstonecraft : her life and times

Level: Item

Classmark: Pencheon Collection NIX

Creator(s): Nixon, Edna

Additional creator(s): Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner); J.M. Dent & Sons (Publisher)

Related people: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797; Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Wollstonecraft, Mary

Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1971

Language: English

Size and medium: xii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/783199

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013383669705181

Description

Early struggles for independence -- The horizon broadens -- In Ireland. Contact with the nobility -- 'A pack of dirty Jacobins' -- Her reply to Burke's 'Reflections' -- Fuseli and other company -- 'A vindication of the rights of woman' -- To Paris for the Revolution -- The meeting with Imlay -- From feminist to humanist -- 'The more I think the sadder I grow' -- Back in London -- The treason trials and Godwin's intervention -- Letters from Scandinavia -- An ever-growing heap of discarded hopes -- The break with Imlay -- Godwin: 'Friendship melting into love' -- Marriage with Godwin -- Birth of a second daughter and death of Mary -- 'An undaunted and masculine spirit'.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index.

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Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection NIX: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).

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