Becoming Wollstonecraft

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.

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Dr Brenda Ayres has been teaching British literature for forty years and currently teaches graduate courses online for Liberty University. To date, she has published 75 books, most of them scholarly. The latest are Religion and Wollstonecraft (2024), The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2023).

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Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.

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Contents

Introduction

**Part 1:

**Chapter 1: The Oldest Wollstonecraft Daughter: Becoming a Feminist

**Chapter 2: "Misery Haunts this House": Rescuing Bess

**Chapter 3: Wollstonecrafts' Melancholy and Madness

**Chapter 4: Becoming the Educator

**Chapter 5: A Mother of Much, Many, and More or Less

**Part 2:

**Chapter 6: "A Sexless Mind," Overstrained Sensibility, and Sapphism

**Chapter 7: Melting in and out of Love

**Chapter 8: Around Johnson's Table

**Chapter 9: Barrier Love and Gilbert Imlay

**Chapter 10: Wollstonecraft and Lucretia

**Part 3:

**Chapter 11: Utopian Dreamer, Topographical Untruths, and Imlay's Literal Lies

*Chapter 12: Lone Traveler on the High Seas: "Lost in a Sea* of Thoughts"

**Chapter 13: "Barren Blooming" in Britain but Germinating in America

*Chapter 14: "I am Buried Alive": Wollstonecraft's Afterbirth of Rights of Woman* in Britain

**Chapter 15: "A Thing of Shreds and Patches": Wollstonecraft's Postmortem