Biography & Memoir

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

av William Godwin

Written just months after his wife Mary Wollstonecraft's death, Godwin presents an unusually frank portrait of her life—including details eighteenth-century British society deemed scandalous.

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"Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by William Godwin is a biography published in 1798. Written just months after his wife Mary Wollstonecraft's death, Godwin presents an unusually frank portrait of her life—including details eighteenth-century British society deemed scandalous. Inspired by Rousseau's "Confessions," he reveals her love affairs, illegitimate child, and suicide attempts. The memoir sparked immediate controversy, forcing revisions and damaging reputations, yet it remains an invaluable document of Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and emerging biographical practices.

Detaljer

Format
EPUB
Språk
Engelsk
Omfang
87 sider
Utgitt
1. januar 1798
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman