I shall plunge into the Thames where there is the least chance of my being snatched from the death I seek. [93] The feminist artwork The Dinner Party, first exhibited in 1979, features a place setting for Wollstonecraft. Shelley was born on August 30 and Wollstonecraft died less than two weeks later. For other uses, see, Gilbert Imlay, the Reign of Terror, and her first child, Hard was thy fate in all the scenes of life. Todd, 450–56; Tomalin, 275–83; Wardle, 302–06; Sunstein, 342–47. Todd, 45–57; Tomalin, 34–43; Wardle, 27–30; Sunstein, 80–91. "[112] Most of Burke's detractors deplored what they viewed as theatrical pity for the French queen—a pity they felt was at the expense of the people. —. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. In May 1795 she attempted to commit suicide, probably with laudanum, but Imlay saved her life (although it is unclear how). [143], This is a complete list of Mary Wollstonecraft's works; all works are the first edition unless otherwise noted. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. [51] Moreover, Wollstonecraft pointed out that unless a queen was a queen regnant, most queens were queen consorts, which meant a woman had to exercise influence via her husband or son, encouraging her to become more and more manipulative. Answer. Godwin wrote "if ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book. Wollstonecraft contrasts her utopian picture of society, drawn with what she says is genuine feeling, to Burke's false feeling.[117]. See, for example, Todd, 106–07; Tomalin, 66, 79–80; Sunstein, 127–28. Their fortunes reflected that of the second wave of the North American feminist movement itself; for example, in the early 1970s, six major biographies of Wollstonecraft were published that presented her "passionate life in apposition to [her] radical and rationalist agenda". Although Godwin felt that he was portraying his wife with love, compassion, and sincerity, many readers were shocked that he would reveal Wollstonecraft's illegitimate children, love affairs, and suicide attempts. Mary Wollstonecraft (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/, /-kræft/[1]; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. mother's masterful Letters Written during a Short Residence in Norway, [24] She proposed a platonic living arrangement with Fuseli and his wife, but Fuseli's wife was appalled, and he broke off the relationship with Wollstonecraft. [22], In London, Wollstonecraft lived on Dolben Street, in Southwark; an up-and-coming area following the opening of the first Blackfriars Bridge in 1769. Myers, Mitzi. [138] While Rousseau ultimately rejects society, however, Wollstonecraft celebrates domestic scenes and industrial progress in her text. Wollstonecraft revelled in the intellectual atmosphere of the Arden household and valued her friendship with Arden greatly, sometimes to the point of being emotionally possessive. She then went out on a rainy night and "to make her clothes heavy with water, she walked up and down about half an hour" before jumping into the River Thames, but a stranger saw her jump and rescued her. [90] Interest in her never completely died, with full-length biographies in 1937[91] and 1951.[92]. [36] Despite her sympathy for the revolution, life for Wollstonecraft become very uncomfortable, all the more so as the Girondins had lost out to the Jacobins. Reflecting the strong influence of Rousseau, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark shares the themes of the French philosopher's Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782): "the search for the source of human happiness, the stoic rejection of material goods, the ecstatic embrace of nature, and the essential role of sentiment in understanding".