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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins PENNELL (1855 - 1936)
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Read by: Pamela Nagami in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Introduction
00:07:51 - 01 - Childhood and Early Youth. 1759-1778
00:37:24 - 02 - First Years of Work. 1778-1785
01:28:50 - 03 - Life as Governess. 1786-1788
02:14:11 - 04 - Literary Life. 1788-1791
02:51:07 - 05 - Literary Work. 1788-1791
03:04:05 - 06 - 'Vindication of the Rights of Women'
03:28:00 - 07 - Visit to Paris. 1792-1793
04:19:01 - 08 - Life with Imlay. 1793-1794
04:44:51 - 09 - Imlay's Desertion. 1794-1795
05:18:44 - 10 - Literary Work. 1793-1796
05:44:54 - 11 - Retrospective. 1794-1796
05:55:16 - 12 - William Godwin
06:29:54 - 13 - Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796-1797
06:54:26 - 14 - Last Months: Death. 1797

'Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects of such censure...The young were bidden not to read her books, and the more mature warned not to follow her example, the miseries she endured being declared the just retribution of her actions.' So begins this short, vivid biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by the American expatriate author, Elizabeth Robins Pennell. We read how Wollstonecraft's father, an unstable, irascible, and often violent alcoholic squandered his fortune and dragged his large family from lodging to lodging. Her mother, a rigid disciplinarian of her children, was his abject slave. A brilliant autodidact, Mary left a position as a governess and moved by herself to London, where she lived by translating and writing. In 1790 she became famous defending the French Revolution against the attacks of Edmund Burke in her 'Vindication of the Rights of Man.' This was followed in 1792 by her most influential work, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.' After becoming pregnant out of wedlock, she was deserted by her lover, Gilbert Imlay and attempted suicide. In 1797 she married William Godwin, but died of post-partum septicemia (childbed fever) following the birth of her second daughter, the future Mary Shelley, author of 'Frankenstein.' - Summary by Pamela Nagami

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