Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
- ISBN-10
- 0806524464
- ISBN-13
- 9780806524467
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-08-01
- Publisher
- Citadel Press
- Author
- Diane Jacobs
Description
Pioneering eighteenth-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft lived a life as radical as her vision of a fairer world. She overcame great disadvantages - poverty (her abusive, sybaritic father squandered the family fortune), a frivolous education, and the stigma of being unmarried in a man's world. Her life changed when Thomas Paine's publisher, Joseph Johnson, determined to make her a writer. Wollstonecraft lived as fully as a man would, socializing with the great painters, poets, and revolutionaries of her era. She traveled to Paris during the French Revolution; fell in love with Gilbert Imlay, a fickle American; and, unmarried, openly bore their daughter, Fanny. This biography of Mary Wollstonecraft gives a balanced view. Diane Jacobs also continues Wollstonecraft's story by concluding with those of her daughters.
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