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The many literary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft – author of novels, travel writing and children’s books

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par Aditi Upmanyu, PhD candidate in English Literature, University of Oxford

In his biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, written after her death, her husband William Godwin remarked of her travel writing: “If ever there was a book calculated to make a man fall in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.”

Today, however, Wollstonecraft is best known for a different work: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). While this landmark text helped lay the foundations of western feminist…

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