Table of Contents

Preface: Charting Wollstonecraft's Global Reception
Editorial Policy

Part I: Public Sightings, 1785-1804

Chapter 1. The Earliest Portraiture of Wollstonecraft, 1785-1804
1. C. 1787-92. Portrait by John Keenan
2. C. 1785-90. Photograph (1936) of oval miniature by James Sowerby and C. 1785-90. Photograph (1937) of rectangular miniature by James Sowerby
3. C. 1790-91. Portrait by John Opie
4. C. 1791. Portrait by John Williamson
5. 1791. Frontispiece by William Blake for Original Stories from Real Life
6. 1796. Engraving by William Ridley
7. 1797. Portrait by John Opie
8. 1797. Engraving by James Heath and 1798 and Engraving by John Chapman
9. 1802. Engraving by Roy
10. 1804. Copy of 1797 Opie by John Keenan

Chapter 2. Her International Reception in Print, 1787-1797
11. 1787. Book review of Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (London)
12. 1788. Book review of Mary, a Fiction (London)
13. 1788. Book review of Original Stories from Real Life (London)
14. 1790. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (London)
15. 1791. Newspaper editorial on A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Kingston, Jamaica)
16. 1792. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London)
17. 1792. Book review of the first French edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Madrid)
18. 1792. “On Modesty,” excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London)
19. 1792. Thomas Taylor's A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (London)
20. 1793. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paris)
21. 1793. Christian Salzmann's "Preface" to the first German Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Schnepfenthal)
22. 1794. Ann Harker's "Salutatory Oration" at the Young Ladies' Academy (Philadelphia)
23. 1795. John Henry Colls's Poetical Epistle Addressed to Mary Wollstonecraft (London)
24. 1796. "The Lost First Dutch Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (Amsterdam), by Myriam Everard
25. 1796. Book review of Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (London)
26. 1797. Newspaper advertisement for William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London)

Part II: Global Afterlives, 1798-1913

Chapter 3 Biographies in English, 1798-1884
27. 1798. William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London)
28. 1798. Priscilla Wakefield's diary entry on Godwin's Memoirs (London)
29. 1800. Mary Hays's “Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft” (London)
30. 1803. Anonymous, “A defence of the character and conduct of the late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin” (London)
31. 1831. John Knowles's The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (London)
32. 1833. Anonymous, “A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft" (New York)
33. 1840. William Hamilton Drummond's Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (Dublin)
34. 1854. William Linton, woodcut engraving of "Mary Wollstonecraft" for The English Republic (Brantwood, England)
35. 1876. Charles Kegan Paul's William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (London)
36. 1876. Sara A. Underwood's Heroines of Freethought (New York)
37. 1879. Charles Kegan Paul's Letters to Imlay, with Prefatory Memoir (London)
38. 1884. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (London)

Chapter 4 International Perspectives, 1798-1913
39. 1798. Pierre-Louis Roederer's “Miscellanies: Of Two New Novels” (Paris)
40. 1799. Hipólito José da Costa's Diário da minha viagem para Filadélfia (Long Island Sound)
41. 1799. “Translator’s Note” to the first Swedish edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Stockholm)
42. 1800. Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females (New York)
43. 1801-02 "Jørgen Borch's first Danish edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"(Kiøbenhavn) by Arman Teymouri Niknam
44. 1805. "Domenico Antonio Filippi's Italian translations from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Godwin's Memoirs (Vienna),” by Serena Vantin
45. 1818. Hannah Mather Crocker's Observations on the Real Rights of Women (Boston)
46. 1827. José da Silva Lisboa, Diário da Câmara dos Senadores do Impériodo Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
47. 1832-1853. "Nísia Floresta Brasileira Augusta and the Public Reception of Wollstonecraft in Brazil," by Charlotte Hammond Matthews
48. 1836. Gustav von Schlabrendorf's “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Hechingen)
49. 1859. Gustav Klemm, Die Frauen (Dresden)
50. 1866. Lucretia Mott's remarks delivered at the 11th National Woman’s Rights Convention (New York)
51. 1885. "Marie Catfauminges de La Forge's 'Uma Educadora' (Santa Catarina, Brazil)," by Charlotte Hammond Matthews
52. 1889. "A Difficult Vindication: Olive Schreiner's Wollstonecraft," by Carolyn Burdett
53. 1889. Olive Schreiner's “Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman” (Cape Town)
54. 1891. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, “Prefatory Note” to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Budapest)
55. 1899. Bertha Pappenheim, translator's introduction to the second German edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dresden and Leipzig)
56. 1904. Cover art, frontispiece, and translator's preface by Anna Holmová, for the first Czech edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Prague)
57. 1901-1913. Elvira’s Lopez’s El Movimiento Feminista and La Nacion’s “El Movimiento Sufragistra” (Buenos Aires)

Part III Making an International Feminist Icon, 1801-2020

Chapter 5. Literary and Graphic Depictions in English, 1801-2015
58. 1801. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's poem “The Vision of Liberty” (London)
59. 1803. William Blake's poem “Mary” (London)
60. 1805. "Equality of the Sexes," frontispiece to John Corry's novella, Memoirs of Francis Goodwin (London)
61. 1831. Mary Shelley's “Introduction" to Frankenstein (London)
62. 1845. Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Boston)
63. 1855. George Eliot's essay “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft” (London)
64. 1862. Mrs. Tamar Davis's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Boston)
65. 1877. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London)
66. 1883. Robert Browning's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli” (London)
67. 1922. Josephine Peabody's play Portrait of Mrs. W. (Boston)
68. 1929. G.E.G. Catlin's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London and New York)
69. 1932. Virginia Woolf's essay “Mary Wollstonecraft” (London)
70. 1954. Pamela Frankau's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London)
71. 1967. Charles W. Hagelman, Jr.'s introduction to the Norton Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York)
72. 1972. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York)
73. 1974. Cover art for Richard Cobb's book review of Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft in The Times Literary Supplement (London)
74. 1975. Miriam Brody Kramnick's introduction to the Penguin Pelican edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York and Harmondsworth)
75. 1976. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York)
76. 1982. Barbara Johnson's review essay, "My Monster/ My Self" (Ithaca, New York)
77. 2002. Women's Graphic Collective poster of "Wollstonecraft-Shelley"(Chicago)
78. 2009. Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's "Mary Wollstonecraft!" comic in ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! (New York)
79. 2015. Claire Robertson's prototype illustration for Jordan Stratford's The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series (New York)

Chapter 6. Global Feminisms, 1891-2020
80. 1891. Millicent Fawcett's introduction to a centennial edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London)
81. 1893. Voltairine de Cleyre's poem “Mary Wollstonecraft” (Philadelphia)
82. 1898. Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough's A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London and Madras)
83. 1908. Mary Lowndes's "Mary Wollstonecraft" suffrage banner (London)
84. 1911. Emma Goldman's lecture, “Mary Wollstonecraft, Her Tragic Life and Passionate Struggle for Freedom" (New York)
85. 1914-17. Ruth Benedict, manuscript chapter on “Mary Wollstonecraft” (New York)
86. 1915. "WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN IN BOOKS," illustrated cover page of The New York Times Review of Books (New York)
87. 1949. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Paris)
88. 1963. Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (New York)
89. 1970. Susan Moller (Okin)'s B. Phil. chapter on Wollstonecraft (Oxford)
90. 1974. "Gionata's Italian translation of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for the Anarchist Journal Volontà (Milan),” by Serena Vantin
91. 1979. Judy Chicago's "Wollstonecraft Table Runner" for the art installation, The Dinner Party (New York)
92. 1980. Cover art for the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo)
93. 1980. Translator Shirai Takako's commentary on the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo)
94. 1986. Martha Nussbaum's book review, "Women's Lot," in The New York Review of Books (New York)
95. 1992. Translator's Preface to the first Chinese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Beijing)
96. 1997. Translator Kawatsu Masae's afterword to the first Japanese edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Tokyo)
97. 2004. Amartya Sen's keynote address, "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary!" at the 13th annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (Oxford)
98. 2011. Translator Moon Suhyo?n's introduction to and commentary on the 2011 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul)
99. 2013. Stewy's street art, "Mary Wollstonecraft" (London)
100. 2014. Translator Son Yongmi's preface to the 2014 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul)
101. 2017. Merrily Grashin's cartoon, "Bloody Mary Woll Stout Craft," in The Paris Review (New York)
102.2020. Maggi Hambling, “Statue for Wollstonecraft” (London)

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Eileen M. Hunt is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA.