Betwixt and Between - The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft

The Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft

Brenda Ayres

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781783086849
• eBook ISBN: 9781783086863
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

Betwixt and Between identifies the biases, errors and ambiguities that have run rampant in the biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Brenda Ayres investigates the agenda, problems and strengths of eighteen critical biographies, beginning with William Godwin's Memoirs (1798), ending with Charlotte Gordon's Romantic Outlaws (2015) and including ten lesser-known biographies. Betwixt and Between synthesizes the biographies, exposes gaps and contradictions, and attempts to fill and reconcile them, supplying in the process considerable information on Wollstonecraft that has never before been published.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION: THE BETWIXT AND BETWEEN LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
• Chapter 1 WILLIAM GODWIN’S MEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR OF “A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN” (1798): A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• Chapter 2 MARY HAYS’S “MEMOIRS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT” (1800): THE SECOND OF A NEW GENUS
• Chapter 3 C. KEGAN PAUL’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: LETTERS TO IMLAY, WITH PREFATORY Memoir BY C. K. PAUL (1879): THE VICTORIAN GENTLEMAN
• Chapter 4 ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1884): A VICTORIAN FEMINIST
• Chapter 5 RALPH M. WARDLE’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY (1951): ROSIE-THE-RIVETER WOLLSTONECRAFT
• Chapter 6 ELEANOR FLEXNER’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1972): THE VERY INSENSIBLE WOLLSTONECRAFT
• Chapter 7 CLAIRE TOMALIN’S THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1974): WOLLSTONECRAFT WITH SPARKLE
• Chapter 8 EMILY SUNSTEIN’S A DIFFERENT FACE: THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1975): NOT-SO-LIBERATED WOMAN
• Chapter 9 MARGARET TIMS’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A SOCIAL PIONEER (1976): WOLLSTONECRAFT’S LIFE: THE STUFF OF NOVELS
• Chapter 10 GARY KELLY’S REVOLUTIONARY FEMINISM: THE MIND AND CAREER OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1992): A LITERARY REVOLUTIONARY
• Chapter 11 JANET M. TODD’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE (2000): THE “IMPUDENT AND IMPRUDENT” WOLLSTONECRAFT
• Chapter 12 MIRIAM BRODY’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: MOTHER OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS (2000): A BEFITTING BETWIXT AND BETWEEN BIOGRAPHY
• Chapter 13 DIANE JACOBS’S HER OWN WOMAN: THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (2001): NEVER JUST HER OWN WOMAN
• Chapter 14 CAROLINE FRANKLIN’S MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: A LITERARY LIFE (2004): “THE EDUCATION OF AN EDUCATOR”
• Chapter 15 LYNDALL GORDON’S VINDICATION: A LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (2005): SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE
• Chapter 16 JULIE A. CARLSON’S ENGLAND’S FIRST FAMILY: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, WILLIAM GODWIN, MARY SHELLEY (2007): “CON/FUSIONS OF FACT AND FICTION”
• Chapter 17 ANDREW CAYTON’S LOVE IN THE TIME OF REVOLUTION: TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY RADICALISM AND HISTORICAL CHANGE, 1793–1818 (2013): “A SUBJECT OF GEORGE III”
• Chapter 18 CHARLOTTE GORDON’S ROMANTIC OUTLAWS: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND HER DAUGHTER (2015): LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER
• EPILOGUE
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX