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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). Thoughts on the Education of Daughters with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more important duties of life. London: J[oseph] Johnson, 1787.
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). Thoughts on the Education of Daughters with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more important duties of life. London: J[oseph] Johnson, 1787.
A very attractive copy of the scarce first edition of Wollstonecraft's first book. Whilst it takes the general approach of other conduct books, several passages stand out as harbingers of a modern awareness. The difficulties in the life of single women, and the need for fair access to education as a tool for the acquisition of independence, resonate prophetically to this day. Education is for Wollstonecraft a desirable good which goes well beyond the content of school lessons: the ‘more or less veiled remarks about her own emotional state ... make it abundantly clear that she was far more interested in the state of her own life and the prospects that lay ahead of young women than in their years at school’ (C. Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: Pelican, 1977, pp.58-59). ESTC T50212; Gumuchian 5855; Rothschild 2595; Windle A1a.
Octavo (153 x 95mm). G6 a cancel as usual. (Short tear to last leaf.) Contemporary marbled calf, sides filleted in gilt, flat spine filleted in gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). Provenance: H. Nicholls (inscription dated 1788, ‘gift of F. Tuner’, on the front free endpaper) -- H. and S. Nicholls (bookplate) -- Iwaki Meisei University (shelfmark label on spine, ink stamp on title verso).
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WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary (1759-1797). Thoughts on the Education of Daughters with Reflections on Female Conduct, in the more important duties of life. London: J[oseph] Johnson, 1787.
A very attractive copy of the scarce first edition of Wollstonecraft's first book. Whilst it takes the general approach of other conduct books, several passages stand out as harbingers of a modern awareness. The difficulties in the life of single women, and the need for fair access to education as a tool for the acquisition of independence, resonate prophetically to this day. Education is for Wollstonecraft a desirable good which goes well beyond the content of school lessons: the ‘more or less veiled remarks about her own emotional state ... make it abundantly clear that she was far more interested in the state of her own life and the prospects that lay ahead of young women than in their years at school’ (C. Tomalin, The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft, London: Pelican, 1977, pp.58-59). ESTC T50212; Gumuchian 5855; Rothschild 2595; Windle A1a.
Octavo (153 x 95mm). G6 a cancel as usual. (Short tear to last leaf.) Contemporary marbled calf, sides filleted in gilt, flat spine filleted in gilt with red morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed). Provenance: H. Nicholls (inscription dated 1788, ‘gift of F. Tuner’, on the front free endpaper) -- H. and S. Nicholls (bookplate) -- Iwaki Meisei University (shelfmark label on spine, ink stamp on title verso).
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