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...prominent women scholars gathered in Agassiz House yesterday to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women...
Assistant Professor of History Susan Pedersen introduced the colloquium by discussing Wollstonecraft's turbulent life and the public response to Wollstonecraft's work in the century following her death...
...Wollstonecraft was a product of her particular moment, but was appropriated by many eras," Pederson said...
...event, culminating in a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, kicks off today and will feature discussions by several noted scholars in the field...
Biography alone can never explain leaps of imagination, but the facts of Mary Shelley's life do point toward the direction she took. She was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, an author and pioneering feminist who died of a retained placenta eleven days after little Mary's birth in 1797. Her father was William Godwin, a novelist and Utopian planner. Despite his free-living principles, Godwin acted outraged as any bourgeois papa when Mary, then 16, ran off with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Percy, the impressionable Mary found a dreamer like her father, but several times larger...