{"product_id":"the-collected-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-hardcover","title":"The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Wollstonecraft\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJanet Todd\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will smile at an observation that has just occurred to me: --I consider those minds as the most strong and original, whose imagination acts as the stimulus to their senses, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in a letter contemplating the role of the imagination in human relationships. Enlightenment feminist and famed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vindication of the Rights of Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e Wollstonecraft was also one of the most distinctive letter writers of the eighteenth century. This volume contains all of her known correspondence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWollstonecraft talked and thought on paper; her letters were a large part of the drama of her life. In them she grows from an awkward child of fourteen to the woman of thirty-eight facing death in childbirth. Where the letters of \"bluestocking\" writers such as Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot have a public quality, Wollstonecraft's letters--whether written in haste or carefully composed, opinionated, or vulnerable--stand out among those of other contemporary writers for their candor and lack of sentimentality. They create a palpable world, a sense of inner vitality, revealing a woman of consistent character who nonetheless struggled to reconcile disparate aspects of her life: integrity and sexual longing; the needs and duties of a woman; motherhood and intellectual life; fame and domesticity; reason and passion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in cramped lodgings and swaying boats, in the wilds of Scandinavia and the chill of Paris in winter, these letters record not a finished, ordered life viewed retrospectively but the dynamic process of living. Collectively, they form a remarkable work of autobiography that reveals the many dimensions of Wollstonecraft's genius.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanet Todd is research professor of English at the University of Glasgow and the author of \u003ci\u003eMary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.48 x 9.12 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467845615869,"sku":"9780231131421","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/bDNuUzRDNnRsSCtXYjFDcTN3WUN2dz09.webp?v=1777281160","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-collected-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}