{"product_id":"the-collected-letters-of-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Wollstonecraft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48275414974715,"sku":"9780231131421","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_4cba4e39-c976-4a8e-92a3-980731ede6f8.jpg?v=1771230200","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-collected-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft-9780231131421","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}