Mary Wollstonecraft

Examples of Mary Wollstonecraft in the following topics:

• 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.

• 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 Glorious Revolution

  • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
  • His daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, a Dutch stadtholder, or steward, was previously the heir to the throne.
  • In February 1689, William and his wife became joint monarchs as William III and Mary II of England .

• "Mother" Jones

  • Mary "Mother" Jones was instrumental in community and labor organization during the late 19th century.
  • Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was an American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer and helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World .
  • Mary Jones became largely affiliated with the United Mine Workers .
  • Mary Jones was ideologically separated from many of the other female activists of the pre- Nineteenth Amendment days due to her aversion to female suffrage .

• Women and the Household

  • Mary Allerton Cushman was the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower.

• Witchcraft in New England

  • Husband and wife Hugh and Mary Parsons accused each other of witchcraft.
  • Hugh was found innocent, while Mary was acquitted of witchcraft but sentenced to be hanged for the death of her child.

• Cinema

  • The period saw the emergence of box office stars, many of whom are still household names, such as Mae Murray, Ramón Novarro, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Warner Baxter, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Bebe Daniels, Billie Dove, Dorothy Mackaill, Mary Astor, Nancy Carroll, Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Haines, Conrad Nagel, John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Dolores del Río, Norma Talmadge, Colleen Moore, Nita Naldi, John Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong, and Al Jolson.

• Progressives and the Working Class

  • In 1903, Mary Harris Jones organized the Children's Crusade, a march of child workers from Kensington, Pennsylvania, to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York, bringing national attention to the issue of child labor.

• The Ku Klux Klan

  • Most of the founders were from an Atlanta-area organization calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan, which had organized around the trial of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent convicted of murdering a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan.