{"product_id":"the-collected-letters-of-mary-mary-wollstonecraft-9780231131421","title":"The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Wollstonecraft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231131429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231131421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.36w x 1.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2004 pg. 104","brand":"Mary Wollstonecraft","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119479320831,"sku":"9780231131421","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06e8c932-39f5-40ac-bf5e-1f5ef09800cd.jpg?v=1687409569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-collected-letters-of-mary-mary-wollstonecraft-9780231131421","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}