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I would have given this 4 stars if it was just 'Maria' (even though it is unfinished), but 'Mary' and 'Matilda' weren't quite as good... and all of them had pretty depressing endings. Still, I think 'Maria' had the potential to be, for its time, an even more powerful portrayal of female oppression than 'The Mill on the Floss' - a book that actually makes you want to do something. Now I need to read 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792)...
3.5⭐ Mary 3, María 3.5, Mathilda 4.5 ⭐
I read Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mathilda by Mary Shelley, Wollstonecraft's daughter. Even though these books aren't a pleasure to read, they are very interesting. They can be tedious at times and they deal with heavy subject matters. However, they also deal with issues of the time they were written in and are very interesting in line with the Romantic era and early feminism! Wouldn't recommend reading this book unless you are a literature student interested in feminism, romantic literatu...
Classic collection of feminist literature pieces. “Maria,” in particular, was witty and a pleasure to read
Imposible poner estrellas aquí: - un 10 para M. Wollstonecraft y M. Shelley- un 0 para el prólogo- un 5 raspado para la edición de Nórdica en conjunto
Maria - 2 Stars.
Only read Mary so far, and it's definitely one of Wollstonecraft's least developed works. However, it gives an excellent example of intimacy between a woman with both a woman and a man.
Whether or not Maria was mad, Mary Wollstonecraft creates a world in which one can be both sane and insane at the same time. But insanity is not the madness we know of today, but rather a simple disassociation of mind and body; when the senses begin to lose credibility and what one sees and feels cannot be trusted. Yes, Maria is an effort to show the brutalization of women in 18th century England, but more than that, this novel is a testament to Mary Wollstonecraft's ideas of the feminine vers...
If pain can purify the heart, mine will be pure. Mary: 2.5/5 Maria: 3.5/5 Matilda: 4/5 Storie che seppure molto brevi sono dense di drammaticità, disperazione e desolazione. Molto autobiografiche le due storie della Wollstonecraft; nelle pagine di Mary Shelley c'è tormento e delicatezza, un connubio che solo lei sa creare con abilità.Le ultime riflessioni di Matilda e le consolazioni di Woodville sono state un balsamo per il mio umore nero di questo periodo.
Mary-3/5Maria-4/5Matilda-4.5/5
Wollstonecraft's Mary and her unfinished Maria are really only of interest for what they tell us about her passions for reform; Shelley's Matilda, though, is worth reading for the way in which it reworks generic Romantic tropes from a female viewpoint. A mere long short story, or scant novella, it tells a heated story of incestuous desire, guilt, exile and death, themes which constitute the standard materials of the Romantics from Coleridge's guilty outcast in The Ancient Mariner, to Byron's ser...
Mary (1788) by Mary Wollstonecraft is available for download at Project Gutenberg.Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) by Mary Wollstonecraft is available for download at Project Gutenberg.Mathilda (1819) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is available for download at Project Gutenberg.
This book is really interesting and fascinating if you want to 1) discover Mary Wollstonecraft and 2) read something by Shelley other than Frankenstein. Well written, these stories can however be tough to read because of their themes (incest, death, illness).
Mary: 3. Maria: 3. Matilda: 4Los relatos son interesantes, son críticas a: la condición social de la mujer, a todos los mandatos impuestos por el hombre patriarcal y la sociedad de la época. Expresando muy bien las autoras el sufrimiento de la mujer..Excelentes obras, ojalá las hubiera leído por separado para apreciadarlas aún más.
Wollstonecraft's "novels" (though one is barely a novella in length, while the other is unfinished) are astounding works--a bit strange for modern readers, perhaps, but are still very "modern" in how they tackle head-on all the ills of late 18th century society. "Maria," in particular, is the story of a woman thrown into a mental asylum by her husband (not a love match) so he can get his hands on her money, and how she claws her way out thanks to help of a devoted servant, and a man who can see
Really 3.5 stars, these three obscure novellas are not the most thrilling read, but they all share the mother-daughter affinity for placing female protagonists with extraordinary challenges at the forefront of the action. Mathilda is probably the highlight as it was suppressed for 100 years, and it is obvious to see why. Definitely for Wollstonecraft and Shelley completists.
Mary and Maria are so heavily imbued in moral musings that it stifles the plot , quite difficult to read however I appreciated the illumination on the limited roles available to women that Wollstonecraft admirably brings to light Matilda was an self indulgent melancholic tragic tale ,most enjoyable !
first- this edition is NOT 256 pages, in total it is 222 pages...second- Mary Wollstonecraft wrote both Mary and Maria, Mary Shelley wrote Matilda. This edition includes all three. Mary Wollstonecraft writes in the late 1700s, her daughter Mary Shelley writes in the early 1800s. The first two books are really about the plight of women. Her seminal work was the 1791 A Vindication of the Rights of Women. These books reflect that.Shelley's Matilda makes a subtle innuendo towards the thought of ince...
one of the most inspiring stories.I have to write a decent review soon...
Great read. The intro gives a Wonderfull idea of what to look for as you read. But, it is incomplete, especially in reference to Matilda. All the stories do deal with suicide, but Matilda also deals with incest, Maria with the low position of women in the early 19th century. This was a good read and enjoyable to me.
