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weirdlookindog · 1 month

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Happy International Women's Day 2024

#international women's day #mary wollstonecraft #a vindication of the rights of woman #quotes #words of wisdom #fight back

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diioonysus · 8 months

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history + last words

#history #mary wollstonecraft #oscar wilde #giles corey #agrippina the younger #pliny the elder #matoaka #pocahontas in other names but i just went with her actual name #jack daniel #historyedit #words #art

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haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll · 4 months

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Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Similarly, if you’ve never heard of a book until now but formed an opinion from this post, you may wish to select a “no” option e.g., “No, but I want to.”

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster.

submit a horror book!

#Frankenstein #mary shelley #mary shelly's frankenstein #mary wollstonecraft #horror books #horror #bookblr #books #horror classics #classics #horrorbookpoll

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philosophybits · 3 months

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True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories from Real Life

#philosophy #quotes #Mary Wollstonecraft #Original Stories from Real Life #politeness #morality #ethics

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feministwhobites · 1 month

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"Tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing. The sensualist, indeed, had been the most dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by their lovers, as princes by their ministers, whilst dreaming that they have reigned over them."

-p.35 of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (Wollstonecraft, Mary)

#reading #feminism #mary wollstonecraft #feminist reading #radical feminism #radblr

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burningvelvet · 4 months

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At the bookstore today I saw this new Mary Shelley game. It may seem like a cash-grab but honestly I think Mary herself would LOVE this. Mary's father William Godwin owned a children's bookstore which sold games as well. When they weren't writing some of the most acclaimed 18th century philosophy, he and his first wife Mary Wollstonecraft also wrote some childrens literature, and both focused heavily on youth education in their belief system. Later, Mary and Percy Shelley (both inspired by her parents, whom they idolized) also worked on childrens stories together and bonded over their mutual love for children, games, education, and imaginative play all around.

The description reads thus: "Contained within these three volumes is a secret many have devated their entire lives to unearthing, and always in vain. It is a secret I would have taken with me to the grave, except that it is, in more ways than ane, our family's legacy, and thus rightfully belongs with you.

"You have just received 'The Shelley Volumes,' a collection of hollowed-out books left by Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) to her son, Florence. Inside you'll discover a trove of beautiful documents, 2D and 3D jigsaw puzzles, and other mysterious objects and artifacts. Solve Mary's puzzles and you'll be treated to a heartbreaking story that culminates in a shocking reimagining of the truth behind her famous novel."

From the website: "Mother of Frankenstein is a groundbreaking new game that combines the best of escape rooms, immersive theater, and prose fiction."

#it seems researched which is shocking #no percy bashing? percy florence rep?! insane #christmas gift ideas #christmas gift #mary shelley #mary wollstonecraft #william godwin #percy shelley #percy bysshe shelley #games #board games #board game design #literature #english literature #bookstore #frankenstein #frankenstein game #percy florence shelley #mother of frankenstein

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philosophors · 23 days

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“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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undinesea · 2 months

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I like the word affection because it signifies something habitual, and we are soon to meet to try whether we have mind enough to keep our hearts warm.

Mary Wollstonecraft, from a letter to Captain Gilbert Imlay

#mary wollstonecraft #quotes

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wollstonecraft-ish · 1 year

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"For many centuries, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf

#dark academia #feminist academia #chaotic academia #feminist literature #light academia #mary wollstonecraft #classic academia #feminism #cottage academia #bronte

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sictransitgloriamvndi · 5 months

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“All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

#mary wollstonecraft #a vindication of the rights of woman #books #english literature #quotes

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belle-keys · 10 months

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the chaotic energy of mary shelley's life and the brillince of frankenstein are so palpable that i sometimes forget how insanely marked her life was with tragedy.

mary shelley's half-sister, fanny, commited suicide. percy's first wife committed suicide. then john polidori (lake geneva homie) committed suicide. all in her lifetime.

she never got to know her mother since mary wollstonecraft died just after childbirth. two of her own children died in infancy when was barely out of childhood herself. and percy died very young, in a kinda stupid way too.

mary was massively resilient. like yeah, i hate historical revisionism where it's implied she hated all of the men in her life or her own existence as a woman yadda yadda, but damn. she categorically went through the wringer.

#mary shelley #percy bysshe shelley #percy shelley #lord byron #poetry #romantic poetry #the romantic poets #english lit #english literature #dark academia #dark academia blog #mary wollstonecraft #frankenstein #books #book blog

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nonage4life · 3 months

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#immanuel kant #poll time #david hume #john locke #voltaire #mary wollstonecraft #rousseau #philosophy #ethics #enlightenment #kantianism #categorical imperative #196 #categorical imperatives #morality #children

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anotherhumaninthisworld · 10 months

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I decided to try this but for the girlies instead.

Are you sure want to click on ”keep reading”?

For Pauline Léon marrying Claire Lacombe’s host, see Liberty: the lives of six women in Revolutionary France (2006) by Lucy Moore, page 230

For Pauline Léon throwing a bust of Lafayette through Fréron’s window and being friends with Constance Evrard, see Pauline Léon, une républicaine révolutionnaire (2006) by Claude Guillon.

For Françoise Duplay’s sister visiting Catherine Théot, see Points de vue sur l’affaire Catherine Théot (1969) by Michel Eude, page 627.

For Anne Félicité Colombe publishing the papers of Marat and Fréron, see The women of Paris and their French Revolution (1998) by Dominique Godineau, page 382-383.

For the relationship between Simonne Evrard and Albertine Marat, see this post.

For Albertine Marat dissing Charlotte Robespierre, see F.V Raspail chez Albertine Marat (1911) by Albert Mathiez, page 663.

For Lucile Desmoulins predicting Marie-Antoinette would mount the scaffold, see the former’s diary from 1789.

For Lucile being friends with madame Boyer, Brune, Dubois-Crancé, Robert and Danton, calling madame Ricord’s husband ”brusque, coarse, truly mad, giddy, insane,” visiting ”an old madwoman” with madame Duplay’s son and being hit on by Danton as well as Louise Robert saying she would stab Danton, see Lucile’s diary 1792-1793.

For the relationship between Lucile Desmoulins and Marie Hébert, see this post.

For the relationship between Lucile Desmoulins and Thérèse Jeanne Fréron de la Poype, and the one between Annette Duplessis and Marguerite Philippeaux, see letters cited in Camille Desmoulins and his wife: passages from the history of the dantonists (1876) page 463-464 and 464-469.

For Adèle Duplessis having been engaged to Robespierre, see this letter from Annette Duplessis to Robespierre, seemingly written April 13 1794.

For Claire Panis helping look after Horace Desmoulins, see Panis précepteur d’Horace Desmoulins (1912) by Charles Valley.

For Élisabeth Lebas being slandered by Guffroy, molested by Danton, treated like a daughter by Claire Panis, accusing Ricord of seducing her sister-in-law and being helped out in prison by Éléonore, see Le conventionnel Le Bas : d'après des documents inédits et les mémoires de sa veuve, page 108, 125-126, 139 and 140-142.

For Élisabeth Lebas being given an obscene book by Desmoulins, see this post.

For Charlotte Robespierre dissing Joséphine, Éléonore Duplay, madame Genlis, Roland and Ricord, see Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1834), page 76-77, 90-91, 96-97, 109-116 and 128-129.

For Charlotte Robespierre arriving two hours early to Rosalie Jullien’s dinner, see Journal d’une Bourgeoise pendant la Révolution 1791–1793, page 345.

For Charlotte Robespierre and Françoise Duplay’s relationship, see Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1834) page 85-92 and Le conventional Le Bas: d’après des documents inédits et les mémoires de sa veuve (1902) page 104-105

For the relationship between Charlotte Robespierre and Victoire and Élisabeth Lebas, see this post.

For Charlotte Robespierre visiting madame Guffroy, moving in with madame Laporte and Victoire Duplay being arrested by one of Charlotte’s friends, see Charlotte Robespierre et ses amis (1961)

For Louise de Kéralio calling Etta Palm a spy, see Appel aux Françoises sur la régénération des mœurs et nécessité de l’influence des femmes dans un gouvernement libre (1791) by the latter.

For the relationship between Manon Roland and Louise de Kéralio Robert, see Mémoires de Madame Roland, volume 2, page 198-207

For the relationship between Madame Pétion and Manon Roland, see Mémoires de Madame Roland, volume 2, page 158 and 244-245 as well as Lettres de Madame Roland, volume 2, page 510.

For the relationship between Madame Roland and Madame Buzot, see Mémoires de Madame Roland (1793), volume 1, page 372, volume 2, page 167 as well as this letter from Manon to her husband dated September 9 1791. For the affair between Manon and Buzot, see this post.

For Manon Roland praising Condorcet, see Mémoires de Madame Roland, volume 2, page 14-15.

For the relationship between Manon Roland and Félicité Brissot, see Mémoires de Madame Roland, volume 1, page 360.

For the relationship between Helen Maria Williams and Manon Roland, see Memoirs of the Reign of Robespierre (1795), written by the former.

For the relationship between Mary Wollstonecraft and Helena Maria Williams, see Collected letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (1979), page 226.

For Constance Charpentier painting a portrait of Louise Sébastienne Danton, see Constance Charpentier: Peintre (1767-1849), page 74.

For Olympe de Gouges writing a play with fictional versions of the Fernig sisters, see L’Entrée de Dumourier à Bruxelles ou les Vivandiers (1793) page 94-97 and 105-110.

For Olympe de Gouges calling Charlotte Corday ”a monster who has shown an unusual courage,” see a letter from the former dated July 20 1793, cited on page 204 of Marie-Olympe de Gouges: une humaniste à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (2003) by Oliver Blanc.

For Olympe de Gouges adressing her declaration to Marie-Antoinette, see Les droits de la femme: à la reine (1791) written by the former.

For Germaine de Staël defending Marie-Antoinette, see Réflexions sur le procès de la Reine par une femme (1793) by the former.

For the friendship between Madame Royale and Pauline Tourzel, see Souvernirs de quarante ans: 1789-1830: récit d’une dame de Madame la Dauphine (1861) by the latter.

For Félicité Brissot possibly translating Mary Wollstonecraft, see Who translated into French and annotated Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman? (2022) by Isabelle Bour.

For Félicité Brissot working as a maid for Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, see Mémoires inédites de Madame la comptesse de Genlis: sur le dix-huitième siècle et sur la révolution française, volume 4, page 106.

For Reine Audu, Claire Lacombe and Théroigne de Méricourt being given civic crowns together, see Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel, September 3, 1792.

For Reine Audu taking part in the women’s march on Versailles, see Reine Audu: les légendes des journées d’octobre (1917) by Marc de Villiers.

For Marie-Antoinette calling Lamballe ”my dear heart,” see Correspondance inédite de Marie Antoinette, page 197, 209 and 252.

For Marie-Antoinette disliking Madame du Barry, see https://plume-dhistoire.fr/marie-antoinette-contre-la-du-barry/

For Marie-Antoinette disliking Anne de Noailles, see Correspondance inédite de Marie Antoinette, page 30.

For Louise-Élisabeth Tourzel and Lamballe being friends, see Memoirs of the Duchess de Tourzel: Governess to the Children of France during the years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793 and 1795 volume 2, page 257-258

For Félicité de Genlis being the mistress of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon’s husband, see La duchesse d’Orléans et Madame de Genlis (1913).

For Pétion escorting Madame Genlis out of France, see Mémoires inédites de Madame la comptesse de Genlis…, volume 4, page 99.

For the relationship between Félicité de Genlis and Louise de Kéralio Robert, see Mémoires de Madame de Genlis: en un volume, page 352-354

For the relationship between Félicité de Genlis and Germaine de Staël, see Mémoires inédits de Madame la comptesse de Genlis, volume 2, page 316-317

For the relationship between Félicité de Genlis and Théophile Fernig, see Mémoires inédits de Madame la comptesse de Genlis, volume 4, page 300-304

For the relationship between Félicité de Genlis and Félicité Brissot, see Mémoires inédites de Madame la comptesse de Genlis, volume 4, page 106-110, as well as this letter dated June 1783 from Félicité Brissot to Félicité Genlis.

For the relationship between Félicité de Genlis and Théresa Cabarrus, see Mémoires de Madame de Genlis: en un volume (1857) page 391.

For Félicité de Genlis inviting Lucile to dinner, see this letter from Sillery to Desmoulins dated March 3 1791.

For Marinette Bouquey hiding the husbands of madame Buzot, Pétion and Guadet, see Romances of the French Revolution (1909) by G. Lenotre, volume 2, page 304-323

Hey, don’t say I didn’t warn you!

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ultimatehistorical · 1 year

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ULTIMATE HISTORICAL FIGURE OF TUMBLR DOT COM!!!

#i love them both #ultimate historical figure of tumblr dot com #ada lovelace #mary shelley #mary wollstonecraft

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philosophybits · 5 months

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You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letter to Everina Wollstonecraft (7 November 1787)"

#philosophy #quotes #Mary Wollstonecraft #Letter to Everina Wollstonecraft #creativity #novelty #invention #character #personality #values

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tonsillessscum · 9 months

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“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”

-Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

#mary shelley’s frankenstein #frankenstein #frankenstiensmonster #mary shelley #mary wollstonecraft #Mary Wollstonecraft shelley #academia #gothic #gothic literature #speculative fiction #writing #author #quotes #dark acamedia #books #feminist writing #feminist literature #female authors

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