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Mary Wollstonecraft

You're Dead to Me

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Mary Wolstonecraft, a Feminist

Mary wolstonecraft's Travellogs were hugely popular, mainly because very few people had actually travelled any where. They wanted to know what stuff overseas looked like and the gross things that local people eat. And mary reviewed at least forty of them when she was a reviewer for joseph johnson,. She ripped them to shreds but also included personal revelations in her own version. Her work inspired not only coleridge and wordsworth, but particularly bcy shelley. When i read the final scenes in frankenstein that take place in the north pole, i can't help but think of mary shelley reading about her mother’s brave journey.

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