| Evidence: | 'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however he rambles into a chimerical world into which I have too often [wand]ered - and draws the usual conclusion that all is vanity and vexation of spirit.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Mar 1787 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ireland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Dublin | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 27 Apr 1759 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | governess then writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Ireland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Title: | Emile |
| Genre: | Fiction, Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7027 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Editor: | Ralph M. Wardle | |
| Title: | Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Place of Publication: | New York | |
| Date of Publication: | 1979 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 145 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Mary Wollstonecraft, Ralph M. Wardle (ed.), Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (New York, 1979), p. 145, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7027, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Everina Wollstonecraft, March 1787 |
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