Bedtime Biography: Vindication
A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lyndall Gordon
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Narrated by Karen Cass
Vindication (2006) tells the inspiring, thrilling, and often tragic tale of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft, known today as the founder of modern feminism. Drawing on significant moments in Wollstonecraft’s life, from her childhood in an abusive household to her experiences co-founding a school and living in Revolutionary France, it paints a picture of a woman who was as complex as she was brilliant. Throughout every stage of her life, Wollstonecraft was truly an original thinker, and her influence on feminist thought continues to ring out today.
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Today, Mary Wollstonecraft is enshrined in history as a hero of the women’s rights movement – perhaps even the very first feminist. She was, in her own words, “the first of a new genus”: a woman who dared to question the reigning belief that women were born inferior to men.
Wollstonecraft’s most famous piece of writing, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, made her a celebrity both in her own time and after her death. But what inspired Mary to fight so spiritedly for women’s emancipation? What life experiences shaped her views? Find out in this bedtime biography.
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