Author

Mary Wollstonecraft(1759–1797)

Mary Wollstonecraft is documented in Fuller’s books (1845). One work is named, all in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Books
Documented: 1845

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Mary Wollstonecraft, like Madame Duvenant (commonly known as George Sand), in our day, was a woman whose existence better proved the need of some new interpretation of woman's rights, than anything she wrote.”

Woman in the Nineteenth Century · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Mary Wollstonecraft

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York2records

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Wollstonecraft in Fuller’s reading world

A Vindication of the Rights of WomanInferred1845

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

p62-63

analyzed · read

“Godwin in behalf of his wife, the celebrated, the, by most men, detested, Mary Wolstonecraft...”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named explicitly as 'the celebrated, the, by most men, detested, Mary Wolstonecraft' and 'the champion of the Rights of Woman'. Named as 'Mary Wolstonecraft' and 'champion of the Rights of Woman' — clearly referring to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

1845—

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

analyzed

“Mary Wollstonecraft, like Madame Duvenant (commonly known as George Sand), in our day, was a woman whose existence better proved the need of some new interpretation of woman's rights, than anything she wrote.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred No specific work by Wollstonecraft is cited or inferred in this passage.