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Read "Memoirs of the Author of The Rights of Woman" for EN4363: Romantic Writing and Women.
This short memoir, written by Mary Wollstonecraft's husband, was surprisingly touching. Mary and William weren't together for very long, and perhaps this accounts for William's desire to present Mary as pretty much flawless. Despite this, he openly writes about Mary's love affairs in a mostly unbiased manner. I can see why a lot of people would have objected to his presentation of Mary's life--severely lacking in judgement for her behaviour on the part of the author--but ultimately I found it to be a very sympathetic depiction of her life. She truly had a lot of struggles to overcome and I could see how her life experiences impacted her writing--sometimes events were lifted straight out of her life. This is a really hard text to rate. I suppose the only flaws would be that sometimes William's philosophising was a little tangential, and I would have liked to have learned more about Mary as a mother, since this was obviously something that was very important to her. 4*
This short memoir, written by Mary Wollstonecraft's husband, was surprisingly touching. Mary and William weren't together for very long, and perhaps this accounts for William's desire to present Mary as pretty much flawless. Despite this, he openly writes about Mary's love affairs in a mostly unbiased manner. I can see why a lot of people would have objected to his presentation of Mary's life--severely lacking in judgement for her behaviour on the part of the author--but ultimately I found it to be a very sympathetic depiction of her life. She truly had a lot of struggles to overcome and I could see how her life experiences impacted her writing--sometimes events were lifted straight out of her life. This is a really hard text to rate. I suppose the only flaws would be that sometimes William's philosophising was a little tangential, and I would have liked to have learned more about Mary as a mother, since this was obviously something that was very important to her. 4*
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