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Godwin’s ‘Memoirs’
February 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Godwin’s ‘Memoirs’
Hello. I just read William Godwin’s 1798 ‘Memoirs of the Author…’ piece. I printed a copy of it off of the Project Gutenberg website; hopefully, there will be a match between all the different translations/editions of this work. I just finished reading it and have generated 3 questions I had about the work. They are:
1) Do you think Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminist philosophy was influenced by her life history? Or do you think that her beliefs were simply motivated by the possibility of having political rights identical to that of men/men with property, etc.?
2) Do you think this account by William Godwin is candid and rational, or do you think it is a subtle attempt of a jealous husband to ‘expose’ Mary?
3) Do you think Mary and William Godwin have the general, Enlightenment view that humanity is good at heart?
