Mary Wollstonecraft - Collected Works and Letters (21 books)

* Mary Wollstonecraft - Collected Works and Letters (21 books)

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797) was a pioneering eighteenth-century British philosopher and passionate advocate for women's rights. Emerging from radical intellectual circles, she employed a variety of genres—including political treatises, educational manuals, and novels—to challenge the foundational social and political structures of her time. Despite facing severe social ostracism both during her life and after her untimely death, her revolutionary ideas laid the groundwork for modern feminist theory.

Wollstonecraft began her literary career with practical, pedagogical texts. Her first publication, THOUGHTS ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS (1787), critiqued the limited social and vocational roles available to women and outlined her early theories on raising independent daughters. Expanding on these ideas to provide practical moral lessons for young minds, she wrote the instructional tale, ORIGINAL STORIES FROM REAL LIFE (1788).

In response to Edmund Burke’s defense of aristocracy following the French Revolution, she published her fierce political critique, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MEN (1790), establishing herself as a serious intellectual. She rapidly followed this success with her defining masterpiece, A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (1792), which argued for equal educational opportunities and full civil and political rights for both sexes. Following this, she chronicled the turbulent events of the French republic in AN HISTORICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1794).

Beyond her famous polemics, Wollstonecraft utilized fiction to illustrate her radical ideas about female autonomy and social oppression. Her debut book, MARY: A FICTION (1788), served as an early exploration of a woman's intellectual and emotional awakening outside the bounds of marriage. Later in her career, she crafted a much darker, institutional critique in her unfinished, posthumously published novel, MARIA: OR, THE WRONGS OF WOMAN (1798). This powerful text boldly examined female desire, bodily autonomy, and patriarchal injustice, explicitly equating traditional marriage with wrongful imprisonment.

The definitive seven-volume edition of THE WORKS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1989), edited by Janet Todd and Marilyn Butler, compiles all her known published writings, fragments, and extensive translation work. Beyond the texts mentioned above, this comprehensive collection includes her uncompleted fictional fragment THE CAVE OF FANCY (1798), a pedagogical anthology THE FEMALE READER (1789), and her final insights on parenting, LETTERS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS (1798). Crucially, it also gathers her lesser-known but highly significant translations and adaptations of continental European texts, such as Christian Gotthilf Salzmann’s ELEMENTS OF MORALITY (1790), Jacques Necker’s OF THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS (1788), and Madame de Cambon’s YOUNG GRANDISON (1790).

THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (2003) brings together her complete surviving correspondence, including her passionate missives to her lover Gilbert Imlay, her deeply collaborative notes to her publisher Joseph Johnson, and her final, tender exchanges with her husband William Godwin. These letters function not only as an invaluable biographical record of a radical Enlightenment woman navigating severe personal crises and societal ostracism, but also as a distinct literary achievement in their own right, matching the fiery passion, emotional transparency, and philosophical depth found in her finest published work.


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:

== THE WORKS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT [ed. Todd & Butler] (NYU, 1989) – PDF ==

* Volume 1. Mary, a Fiction (1788) / The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria (1798) / The Cave of Fancy (1787, posthumous)

* Volume 2. Elements of Morality, for the Use of Children (1788–89, translated from Christian Gotthilf Salzmann) / Young Grandison (1790, translated and adapted from Maria van de Werken de Cambon)

* Volume 3. Of the Importance of Religious Opinions (1788, translated from Jacques Necker)

* Volume 4. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) / The Female Reader (1789) / Original Stories from Real Life (1788) / Letters on the Management of Infants (1798) / Lessons (1798)

* Volume 5. A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) / A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) / Hints (posthumous)

* Volume 6. An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution (1794) / Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) / Letters to Joseph Johnson (posthumous) / Letters to Gilbert Imlay (posthumous) / Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation (posthumous)

* Volume 7. On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature (1797) / Contributions to the Analytical Review (1788–1797) / General index to Volumes 1–7


== OTHER EDITIONS ==

* A Short Residence in Sweden [ed. Holmes] (Penguin, 1987) – ePUB
* Complete Works (Delphi Classics, 2016) – ePUB
* Mary and The Wrongs of Woman [ed. Kelly] (Oxford, 1998) – PDF
* Mary, Maria, and Matilda [ed. Todd] (Penguin, 2004) – ePUB
* Vindication of the Rights of Woman [ed. Botting] (Yale, 2014) – ePUB / PDF
* Vindication of the Rights of Woman [ed. Brody] (Penguin, 2020) – ePUB
* Vindication of the Rights of Woman [ed. Power] (Verso, 2019) – ePUB
* Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Men [ed. Todd] (Oxford, 2009) – ePUB / PDF

== LETTERS ==

* Collected Letters [ed. Todd] (Allen Lane, 2003) – PDF
* Godwin & Mary: Letters of Godwin and Wollstonecraft [ed. Wardle] (Nebraska, 1977) – PDF
* Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark [ed. Brekke & Mee] (Oxford, 2009) – ePUB / PDF

== BIOGRAPHIES ==

* Gordon, Charlotte - Romantic Outlaws (Random House, 2015) – ePUB
* Todd, Janet - Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (Bloomsbury, 2014) – ePUB
* Tomalin, Claire - The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Penguin, 2009) – ePUB


SEE ALSO:

* William Godwin - Essential Works of Anarchism (16 books)
https://www.1337x.to/torrent/4607476/William-Godwin-Essential-Works-of-Anarchism-16-books/

* Mary Shelley - Collected Works, incl. Frankenstein (37 books)
https://www.1337x.to/torrent/6632333/Mary-Shelley-Collected-Works-incl-Frankenstein-37-books/

* Percy Bysshe Shelley - Collected Works and Letters (18 books)
https://www.1337x.to/torrent/6636854/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley-Collected-Works-and-Letters-18-books/


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