Mary Wollstonecraft

(noun)

An eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    • Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, whose focus on women's rights and particularly women's access to education, distinguished her from most of male Enlightenment thinkers.
    • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.
    • The second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomplished writer herself as Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
    • The majority of Wollstonecraft's early works focus on education.
    • But Wollstonecraft is not necessarily a friend to the poor.

  • Introduction to the Enlightenment

    • Mary Wollstonecraft was one of England's earliest feminist philosophers.
    • Mary Wollstonecraft, one of few female thinkers of the time, was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

  • Republican Motherhood

    • They believed this domestic role—rather than the more public roles promoted by Mary Wollstonecraft and her contemporaries—was the appropriate path for women.
    • Although the notion of Republican Motherhood initially encouraged women in their private roles, it eventually resulted in increased educational opportunities for American women, as typified by Mary Lyon and the founding in 1837 of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later renamed "Mount Holyoke College").

  • Domesticity and "Domestics"

    • Women who advocated for women's rights, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, and Harriet Martineau, were accused of disrupting the natural order of things and were condemned as unfeminine.

  • Marquis de Condorcet

    • Even Mary Wollstonecraft, a British writer and philosopher who attacked gender oppression, pressed for equal educational opportunities, and demanded "justice" and "rights to humanity" for all, did not go as far as to demand equal political rights for women.  

  • Napoleon's Marriage to Marie-Louise

  • Marriage to Marie-Antoinette

    • Upon her arrival in France, she adopted the French version of her name: Marie Antoinette.
    • By the time that Louis and Marie Antoinette were married, the French were generally critical of the Austrian alliance and many saw Marie Antoinette as an unwelcome foreigner.
    • However, Marie Antoinette's mother and the Austrian ambassador to France, comte de Mercy-Argenteau who was sending the Empress secret reports on Marie-Antoinette's behavior, put Marie Antoinette under pressure and she grudgingly agreed to speak to Madame du Barry.
    • Marie Antoinette's first child, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, was born in 1778 but in the middle of the queen's pregnancy, her brother made claims on the throne of Bavaria (the War of the Bavarian Succession).
    • Explain the political reasons for the marriage of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI.

  • Abraham Lincoln's Family

    • Mary and her son Robert Lincoln sat with the president through the night.
    • Following her husband’s death, Mary was reportedly became unhinged with grief.
    • Unfortunately, the publication earned Keckley derision and criticism, and Mary viewed the publication a breach of trust and privacy.
    • On July 14, 1870, two years after publication of the book, Mary was granted a life pension in the amount of $3,000 (or $56,139 in 2016 dollars), which was unprecedented at the time and passed by a small margin on account of how many congressmen Mary had alienated over the years.
    • Discuss the experiences of Mary Todd and Robert Lincoln in the aftermath of President Lincoln's death

  • The New Royals and Their People

    • Despite the common skepticism towards the Franco-Austrian alliance, Marie Antoinette's arrival in Paris provoked excitement.
    • Marie Antoinette pleaded with her husband for the French to intercede on behalf of Austria.
    • In the same year, Marie Antoinette gave birth to her second child, Louis Joseph Xavier François, Dauphin of France.
    • The portrait of Marie Antoinette and her three surviving children: Marie Thérèse, Louis Charles (on her lap), and Louis Joseph holding up the drape of an empty bassinet signifying the recent death of Marie's fourth child, Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1787).
    • Yet, the public perception was that Marie Antoinette had ruined the national finances.

  • The Sea-Serpent

    • Híc Neptúnum, maris deum, ólim offenderat; Neptúnus autem mónstrum saevissimum míserat.
    • Hóc cottídié é marí veniébat et hominés dévorábat.