Hyenas in Petticoats: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley - Softcover

Robert Woof, Stephen Hebron And Claire Tomalin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870787404 ISBN 13: 9781870787406

Publisher: Wordsworth Trust, 1997

Synopsis

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Trust
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1870787404
• ISBN 13: 9781870787406
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 154