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PITHY QUOTE FROM Wollstonecraft: Works
It is true, many of my relations visit me; but I think they only come to calculate how long I shall thus gradually be sinking into the grave. Believe me, my dear friend, I often wish to be in the place of one of my day labourers; to be able to eat, drink, sleep, and laugh; and to have children to take care of me in my old age. I see them dancing round my sturdy plowman; while I, wretched man, am a burthen to myself.
He raised his eyes towards Heaven, and a tear stole down his pale cheeks.
The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Volume 2: Elements of Morality. Young Grandison, Chapter II.
The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Electronic Edition.
ISBN: 978-1-57085-558-0
Language: English
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Mary Wollstonecraft.
Oil on canvas, by John Opie By permission. National Portrait Gallery, London |
List of ContentsWollstonecraft, Mary. The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Edited by Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler, assistant editor Emma Rees-Mogg. 7 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1989.
NotesJanet Todd is the Francis Hutcheson Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow, and the author of many books, including The Secret Life of Aphra Behn (1996) and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (2000). Marilyn Butler is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford and author of Maria Edgeworth a Literary Biography (1972), Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (1981) and editor of Burke, Paine and Godwin and the Revolution Controversy (1984). |
Her (Wollstonecraft's) multi-faceted genius as a writer is revealed in this definitive seven-volume collection of her works, published under the scrupulous editorship of Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler. |
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