Author : William Godwin
Release : 2018-03-09
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman by : William Godwin

Download or read book Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman written by William Godwin. This book was released on 2018-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is the biography, by William Godwin, of his wife Mary Wollstonecraft, author of the essay A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Defense of Women's Rights, 1792).William Godwin considered it his duty to review and publish the unfinished works left by Mary Wollestonecraft after his death in 1797. A week after his funeral, he began working on this project, and began writing memoirs about his life. To prepare to write this biography, he re-read all his works, spoke with his friends, and finally classified and numbered his correspondence. After four months of hard work, he had completed both projects. According to William St Clair, who wrote a biography of Godwin and Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft was so famous at the time that William Godwin did not have to mention his name in the title of the biography ...