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Showing posts with label Philosopher. Show all posts

Monday, April 27, 2026

Born on this day – Mary Wollstonecraft:


Mary Wollstonecraft


Writer

Philosopher

April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797

Credits:

Books and articles:

A Different Face: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft; Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology; Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Impeccable Governess, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books; Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul; Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility; Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction; Mary Wollstonecraft on education; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Women Writers of Her Day; Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies; Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman; On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus; On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Romantic Correspondence: Women, politics and the fiction of letters; Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism; Sensibility and the 'Walk of Reason': Mary Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique; The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft; The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Godwins and the Shelleys: The biography of a family; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's daughters: womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920; Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Towards Romantic Autobiography; Women's Friendship in Literature.

Movies and television:

If Love Should Die (date?); Mary Wollstonecraft of Sector Seventeen (2008).

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Born on this day – Olaf Stapledon:


Olaf Stapledon


Writer

Philosopher

May 10, 1886 – September 6, 1950

Credits:

Books:

A Man Divided (1950); A Modern Magician (1979); An Olaf Stapledon Reader (1996); Darkness and the Light (1942); Death into Life (1946); Far Future Calling (1986); Four Encounters (1976); Last and First Men (1930); Last and First men and Star Marker (1972); Last Men in London (1932); Nebula Maker (1976); Nebula Maker and Four Encounters (1983); Odd John (1935); Odd John and Sirius (1940); Old Man in New World (1944); Sirius (1944); Star Maker (1937); Talking across the World (1961); The Flames (1947); The Opening of the Eyes (1954); To the End of Time (1975); Worlds of Wonder (1949).

Movies and television:

A Modern Magician (2019); Last and First Men (2020).