This is Captain Gilbert Imlay we had a brief relationship while he worked for the American Embassy in France. He had fought in the American revolution and when the French revolution started, we realized that nobody was safe and registered as husband and wife at the American embassy. Soon I became pregnant with his child and gave birth to a baby girl named Fanny, after my childhood best friend Fanny Blood. One day he returned to London on business and never came back leaving Fanny and I to fend for ourselves.

Lewis, Jone J. "Mary Wollstonecraft - Gilbert Imlay - Travels to Sweden." About.com Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

Schachterle, Lance. "American Fiction Before Cooper Worth Reading." N.p., Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

                       

                        This is a picture of a church in my birthplace of Spitalfields. I may have been born her but i didn't stay here for long. My father moved us at least six times before I left home to fend for myself. Spitalfields is located in the east end of London. It is also the place that was struck by Jack the Ripper, as the white chapel in the picture is the Whitechapel of the Whitechapel Murders. Of course by that time I was already long gone out of Spitalfields!

Dunning, Ron. "London | Jane Austen in Vermont | Page 3." Jane Austen in Vermont | Vermont JASA Region. N.p., 20 Sept. 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

Wikipedia contributors. "Spitalfields." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free 
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Wikipedia contributors. "Mary Wollstonecraft." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 10 Dec. 2015. Web. 11 Dec. 2015.

                            These are the last three notes that I wrote to my husband, William Godwin, before I gave Birth to my daughter Mary. William and i preferred to live independently during the day, communicating only through letters. In these letters, I refer to the baby as an animal and looking for reassurance from the midwife Mrs. Blenkinsop. The last line in the final letter is inspired by my mothers last words, "Have a little patience and all will be over." Mary was born about an hour later with no problems, until afterwards when i acquired an infection.

"Mary Wollstonecraft's last three notes to Godwin." Shelley's Ghost - Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family. New York Public Library, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

           This is a first edition copy of the final book that I wrote Maria to The Wrongs Of Woman In French. It is the sequel to A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman. People consider it my most radical piece of feminist writing. The story revolves around a woman, Maria, who is put into an insane asylum by her husband. The Wrongs of Woman Takes inspiration from Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance. In the eighteenth century the style of this novel was called a Jacobin Novel, Because it was a philosophical novel that represented the ideas of the french revolution. I never got to finish the book so my husband published it unfinished in 1798.

Ferguson, Stephen. "Translations of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria | Rare Book Collections @ Princeton." Princeton University WordPress Service | News and Information About Our WordPress Hosting Environment. N.p., 7 Feb. 2011. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

Wikipedia contributors. "Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 

Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 Nov. 2015. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

               
               This is an Original manuscript for my essay On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature. It was originally published in The Monthly Magazine in April 1797 under the title On Artificial Taste. My Husband later renamed it On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature. That is why the title on this manuscript was written in his handwriting. This was published under the Pseudonym W.Q. and was sent into The Monthly Magazine as a letter to the editor.

Keen, Paul. Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print Culture, 1780-1832. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004. Google Books. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

"Mary Wollstonecraft, Essay On Poetry." Shelley's Ghost - Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family. New York Public Library, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

            This is a necklace that my daughter, Mary Shelly, got made out of a lock of my hair. She collected locks of hair, a hobby she inherited from her father, my husband, William Godwin. The two charms at the bottom each contain a lock of My daughters hair and a lock of hair from her husband, Percy Shelly. The necklace was made by Antony Forrer, who held a royal warrant as Artist in Hair Jewelry to Her Majesty. Later the necklace was worn by my son in law, Percy Shelly's, sister Margaret Shelly in a painting sometime between 1851 and 1857.

"Necklace Fashioned from Mary Wollstonecraft's Hair." Shelley's Ghost- Reshaping the Image of A Literary Family. New York Public Library, n.d. Web 10 Dec. 2015.

   
                 This is the audiobook for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It is one of the earliest pieces of Feminist Philosophy. I was inspired to write it after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly. It said that women should only be educated domestically and not in schools. I completely and utterly disagreed to this. I think that the fact that women aren't educated is part of the fact that we are so oppressed in society. As I was writing this during the Enlightenment period, I used reason to justify my ideas. A Vindication Was and still remains the most widely used piece of Feminist Literature.

Wikipedia contributors. "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 13 Nov. 2015. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

Osborne, Kristen. Kissel, Adam ed. "A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman Summary." GradeSaver. 31 March 2012. Web. 10 December 2015.

                                   This is a painting of my husband William Godwin. The painting was done by Henry William Pickersgill in the year 1830. William and I met in 1796 at a dinner for radical intellectuals and fell in love. I had been against marriage since my sister had to flee her abusive husband and i had to hide her. I only agreed to marriage when I found out that I was pregnant with my daughter Mary for it was considered wrong at the time to have a child out of wedlock.

"Writer Mary Wollstonecraft Marries William Godwin." History.com. A&E Television NEtworks, 2009. Web. 9 Dec. 2015

                     This is a picture of the school that i opened in 1759 in Newington Green. I opened it with my sister Eliza and my best friend Fanny Blood. Fanny died in childbirth soon after so i took a job as a governess to take time to mourn and recover. When I returned to the school, I found it in such a bad state financially, I was forced to close it. Even though the school didn't last like i wanted it to, Teaching inspired me to write my very first book.

"Mary Wollstonecraft" Bio.com Editors. A&E Networks Television. Web. 9 Dec. 2015

Taxali, Ankur. "Pictorial Timeline." Pictorial Timeline. Web. 9 Dec. 2015

                  This is the cover page of a first edition copy of A Vindication Of The Rights of Woman. It was published in London in 1792 by my friend and boss Joseph Johnson.  This is one of my more famous works. After the great response i got to A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men i was inspired to write this. A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman Is still used by women rights activists today and remains the most popular book about women rights and equality.

Todd, Janet. "Mary Wollstonecraft: A 'Speculative and Dissenting Spirit'" BBC News. BBC, 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 8 Dec. 2015.

St. Osage, Anna. "Title Page of 1792 First Edition of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” by Mary Wollstonecraft. | News from the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections." News from the Clara Thomas Archives Special Collections. 8 Mar. 2011. Web. 9 Dec. 2015.