Edward john wollstonecraft biography of william shakespeare
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Take thy face hence
Established in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery, London was the first of the few art museums in the world that focus only on portraiture. The institution sought to embody Carlyle’s point that portraits had more to offer than a record of someone’s features, and that you could therefore be improved, educated or inspired by looking at them. From its outset, the Gallery sought to build a collection of ‘authentic likenesses of celebrated individuals’, and ‘of those persons most honourably commemorated in British history as warriors or as statesmen, or in arts, in literature, or in science’. Debating the proposal for a national portrait gallery in March 1856, members of the House of Lords enthused over how a portrait collection could ‘afford great pleasure and instruction to the industrious classes’, provide ‘a boon to men of letters’, and be ‘useful as an incitement to honourable exertion’. Un
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Mary Wollstonecraft
1. Biography
The second of seven children, Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, London, on 27 April 1759, in a house on Primrose Street. Her paternal grandfather was a successful master weaver who left a sizeable legacy, but her father, Edward John, mismanaged his share of the inheritance. He tried to establish himself as a gentleman farmer in Epping. This was the first of the family’s several moves, each of which marked its financial and social decline. Only Mary’s brother, Edward (Ned), was to receive a formal education; he became a lawyer. He had also inherited directly from his grandfather a substantial part of the latter’s legacy.
Wollstonecraft’s own somewhat haphazard education was, however, not entirely unusual for someone of her sex and position, nor was it particularly deficient. Her published writings show her to have acquired a true command of the Bible and a good knowledge of the works of several of the most famo
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of womens rights. Her work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is considered a foundational text in feminist philosophy.
Vision
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering feminist writer and philosopher of the 18th century, best known for her treatise, 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'. Her vision was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, education, and equality. She believed that both men and women should be treated as rational beings, capable of thought and reason, and deserving of the same fundamental rights.
Wollstonecraft’s vision was centered on the principle of equality. She argued that women were not naturally inferior to men, but appeared to be only because they lacked education. She suggested that both men and women should be co-educated, which was a revolutionary idea at the time. Co-education, according to her, would promote mutual respect between the sexes,