"Mary Wollstonecraft" by Elizabeth Robins Pennell is a biography that chronicles the life of a pioneering feminist and champion of women's rights. The book journeys through the hardships and triumphs that molded her into a groundbreaking thinker, revealing how her troubled youth and clashes with social expectations fueled her revolutionary ideas. It opens by painting a portrait of a difficult upbringing, marked by an oppressive father and restrictive social norms, showing her extraordinary strength as she confronted adversity. The biography lays out the formative influences that sparked her passion for gender equality, bringing to light the friendships and enlightenment that shaped her journey to becoming a leading voice in the fight for social change.
Mary Wollstonecraft
By Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Discover how one woman's fight against abuse and rigid social expectations made her a revolutionary voice for women's rights.
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About the AuthorElizabeth Robins Pennell was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A researcher summed her up in a work published in 2000 as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic"; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted.
Elizabeth Robins Pennell was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, made her home in London. A researcher summed her up in a work published in 2000 as "an adventurous, accomplished, self-assured, well-known columnist, biographer, cookbook collector, and art critic"; in addition, she wrote travelogues, mainly of European cycling voyages, and memoirs, centred on her London salon. Her biographies included the first in almost a century of the proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, one of her uncle the folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland, and one of her friend the painter Whistler. In recent years, her art criticism has come under scrutiny, and her food criticism has been reprinted.
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