1、Mary Wollstonecraft,By Tiffany he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”,Mary Wollstonecraft,1759.04.27-1797.09.10,Womens Liberationist Author,p.s.: Mary Shelleys mother Frankensteins writer,Mary was born in a farmer family, in Essex. She was the 2nd child in seven children.,At her age

2、of four or five, her family went bankrupt and they became rangers. Her father was addicted to wine, and maltreated her mother. Little Mary had to take the responsibility to take care of her younger sisters and brothers.,1768 Mary entered a female school nearby. The aim of the school was cultivating

3、fair maidens for gentlemen. During that period, Mary became interested in current affairs and politics.,Life experience,1774 Wollstonecrafts moved to London. Mary knew Fanny Blood who encouraged her to leave the unhappy family, be independent. While, for the sake of her mothers imploring, Mary did n

4、ot leave. However, she still learned all kinds of knowledge by herself and took part in plenty of discussions about social problems. Then, she made friends with a translator Mr. Tomas and his wife, and knew Platonism from them.,1782 Marys mother died. She left her family with two of her sisters and

5、lived with Fanny.,1784 Mary&Fanny founded a female school in the northern of London.,1785 Fanny married a Portuguese.,1786 Fanny was pregnant. Mary went to Lisbon to take care of her, although, Fanny died while giving the baby birth. Her school also went bankrupt. Mary began to be a professional cop

6、ywriter and published a series of feminism works. Then she became a famous Womens Liberationist.,1793 Mary lived together with an American, Gilbert Imlay. She got the American nationality becoming an American and had a baby with Gilbert. But they did not get married.,1795 Mary found Imlay betrayed h

7、er. She had ever wanted to suicide twice.,1796 After separating with Imlay, she fell in love with a famous writer William Godwin.,1797 Mary and Godwin married. Their child, Mary Godwin, was born in August.,10th September, Mary died for the complications after giving the birth of her baby.,Thoughts o

8、n the Education of Daughters (1787) Mary: A fiction (1788) This is Marys first fiction. She wrote at Rousseaus thoughtgenius can teach themselves, and described a woman, Emile how to educate herself by sensibility, nature, and thinking independently. Original Stories from Real Life (1788) Of the Imp

9、ortance of Religious Opinions (1788) The Female Reader (1789) Young Grandison (1790) Elements of Morality (1790),The works published before her death,The Cave of Fancy (1798) The Wrongs of Women (1798) Letters to Imlay (1798) Letters on the Management of Infants (1798) Lessons (1798),Posthumous work

10、s /published after her death,A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) (1792) An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution (1794) Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796),Affections,Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneer

11、 on Feminist Movement. Her works aware women in the 19th, 20th, and 21st century of the unequal treatment between female and male. Since the period of Mary Wollstonecraft, female literature had become an important branch of literature. In other, Mary Wollstonecraft was the first person to fight for

12、the rights of women.,Marys love value was bold and independent, which became one of the idols in Feminist Movement during the later Victorian.,During 20th century, Mary gradually became a symbol of Feminist Movement. Some female scholars who studied Marys life experience and works were effected by her such as Virginia woolf.,Recently, Marys works are being reconsidered all-roundly. Several scholars believe