![]() ![]() ![]() In 1792, Wollstonecraft published her famous work “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” in which she stressed that women’s lives under tyranny of domestic brutes frustrated them and made them violent towards their children and servants, it also advocated women’s rights to education and their equality to men in this regard. She made up for her lack of education by spending a lot of her time reading and reviewing and most of translating work gave her extensive knowledge of the works of Kant and Leibniz. ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft soon became a regular contributor of articles and radical writings to Johnson’s analytical review. This acquainted her with most of London’s intellectual circles. In 1788, Joseph Johnson provided her with an intellectual job as a translator and literary advisor. In 1787, she was dismissed from work after which she settled in George Street, London. She later became the governess to the daughter of Lord Kingsborough and spent most of her time in Ireland. Her school soon became unstable and failed to provide her with income after which it collapsed. They established their first school at Newington Green where she started on her first set of works “Thoughts on the Education of Daughters”. ![]() February 1784 was the beginning of many of Wollstonecraft ’s endeavors when she established her first school with the help of her sister Elisa and friend Fanny. ![]()
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