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Betwixt and between : the biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft / Brenda Ayres.
Author
Ayres, Brenda, 1953-
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xvii, 261 pages ; 24 cm
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Available Online
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR5841.W8 Z57 2017
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Authors, English
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18th century
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Biography
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Authors, English
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Biography
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History and criticism
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Biography as a literary form
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Biographers
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Great Britain
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Women and literature
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England
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History
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18th century
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Feminism and literature
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England
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History
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18th century
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Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797
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Summary note
"This manuscript is an investigation of the biographical corpus on Mary Wollstonecraft. It identifies the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities and gaps that have run rampant, many of them incomprehensively left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. It also analyzes how these flaws have subsequently and significantly distorted scholars' understanding of Wollstonecraft and her works. Since there has been so much written on this controversial and politically charged figure, the study is substantial, investigating the agenda, problems and strengths of each of eighteen critical biographies beginning with 'Godwin's Memoirs' in 1798 and ending with 'Charlotte Gordon's Romantic Outlaws' (2015). Ten lesser known biographies are briefly treated as well. Synthesizing the biographies and exposing the contradictions, 'Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft' fills in the gaps, supplying considerable information on Wollstonecraft that has never been published before."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-252) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1798): A Political Philosopher's Autobiography
2. Mary Hays's "Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft" (1800): The Second of a New Genus
3. C. Kegan Paul's Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters to Imlay, with Prefatory Memoir by C.K. Paul (1879): The Victorian Gentleman
4. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's Mary Wollstonecraft (1884J: A Victorian Feminist
5. Ralph M. Wardle's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography (1951): Rosie-the-Riveter Wollstonecraft
6. Eleanor Flexner's Mary Wollstonecraft (1972): The Very Insensible Wollstonecraft
7. Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974): Wollstonecraft with Sparkle
8. Emily Sunstein's A Different Face: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (1975): Not-so-liberated Woman
9. Margaret Tims's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Social Pioneer (1976): Wollstonecraft's Life: The Stuff of Novels
10. Gary Kelly's Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft (1992): A Literary Revolutionary
11. Janet M. Todd's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (2000): The "Impudent and Imprudent" Wollstonecraft
12. Miriam Brody's Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Women's Rights (2000): A Befitting Betwixt and Between Biography
13. Diane Jacobs's Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2001): Never Just Her Own Woman
14. Caroline Franklin's Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life (2004): "The Education of an Educator"
15. Lyndall Gordon's Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2005): Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
16. Julie A. Carlson's England's First Family: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley (2007): "Con/fusions of Fact and Fiction"
17. Andrew Cayton's Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793
1818 (2013): "A Subject of George III"
18. Charlotte Gordon's Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter (2015): Like Mother, Like Daughter.
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ISBN
9781783086849 ((hardcover))
178308684X ((hardcover))
LCCN
2017005633
OCLC
972200752
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40027281467
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