The Wrongs Of Woman The Forsaken Home

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Wrongs of Woman written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman was a novel left uncompleted at the time of Mary Wollstonecraft's death. Perhaps more famous today as the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, before her untimely death, Wollstonecraft was a leading figure of feminist literature. Mostly known for her essays and other works of elegantly crafted polemics decrying the unfair treatment and systematic subjugation of women in British society, Wollstonecraft had also already written one novel-Mary: A Fiction-before commencing on her second attempt. Her husband and even more famous-and infamous-literary light, William Godwin, took it upon himself following his wife's death to complete her work and fashion it for publication. Women authors at the time were primarily famous for gothic works of haunted homes and castles in which the subjugation of women were stripped of common notions of reality and the pervasive element of patriarchal governance. By situating her heroine into a mental hospital at the request of her husband and revealing the true horror facing many women in a society constructed upon stripping of civil rights, Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman places the underlying horror of gothic fiction within the very real world of feminist empowerment.