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On the night of December , , Mary Wollstonecraft, alone in her apartment on the rue Meslée in Paris, sat writing a letter to her publisher Joseph Johnson in London. "Once or twice, lifting my eyes from the paper, I have seen eyes glare through a glass-door opposite my chair, and bloody hands shook at me . . . I want to see something alive; death in so many frightful shapes has taken hold of my fancy.-I am going to bedand, for the first time in my life, I cannot put out the candle."  She had crossed the Channel to witness the events in France, inspired by the revolutionaries' attempt to create a more equal society along republican lines. But the silent streets as Louis XVI passed by on his way to trial, so dignified in the face of what she knew to be certain death, shocked her. Wollstonecraft was fierce in argument, quick to pass judgment, sensitive to injustice, but always keenly aware of the springs of human action. Her life was forged in difficult circumstances. The second of seven children, Mary was born on April ,  in Spitalfields, in the heart of London's silk-weaving business, by which her family made their money. But the settled life of the wealthy and well-educ

Author

Johnson, Nancy E.; Keen, Paul

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781108261067