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I have just read about Astell, Mary (1666–1731) in The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.
There was a feminist writer (philosopher) before Mary Wollstonecraft? I did not know that.
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Mary Astell
Vicky- Posts : 73
Join date : 2017-11-27
Mary Wollstonecraft’s second daughter (shortly after giving birth to whom she died) was to find eternal fame as the author of the ever popular Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
George- Admin
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Join date : 2017-11-26
And Mary Wollstonecroft Godwin caused a huge scandal in her time by having an affair with a married man, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley! They married each other after the suicide of Percy’s first wife Harriet. Percy himself did not live a long life, dying just before his 30th birthday.
A moment ago, I read about Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats in The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. So Keats died before Shelley – short though as the latter’s life was.
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