Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

William Godwin, also known as Edward Baldwin and Theophilus Marcliffe, (1756-1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism. He is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), an attack on political institutions, and Caleb Williams; or, Things as They Are (1794), which attacks aristocratic privilege, but also is virtually the first mystery novel. He wrote prolifically in the genres of novels, history and demography throughout his life time. With his wife, Mary Jane Clairmont, he wrote children's primers on Biblical and classical history, which he published along with such works as Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare. He also has had considerable influence on British literature and literary culture. His other works include Memoirs of the Author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1798), Life of Chaucer (1803), Cloudesley (1830), and Deloraine (1833).

Sylvia Pankhurst's career was very different from those of her mother Emmelina or sister Christabel. A promising art student, she was soon a more than active Suffragette, but her insistence on taking the cause to the working women of the East End of London led to her virtual expulsion. Much of the rest of her life was devoted to the causes of anti-fascism, anti-imperialism and the independence of Ethiopia. This book tells her story.

Product Description: This book treats the literary work of Julia Augusta Webster within the context of Webster's participation in nineteenth-century British aestheticism. Webster's personal life, her experience as a member of the Suffrage Society and her tenure on the London School Board, as well as her position as poetry reviewer for the Athenaeum and participation in the salon society of the 1880s, inform her later work, but her earliest poetry and fiction also reflect the beginnings of the aestheticist perspective on the transience and impermanence of life...read more

Product Description: Jill Craigie-filmmaker, writer, pioneering feminist and devoted wife to former Labour Leader Michael Foot-led an extraordinary life. Strikingly attractive, fiercely independent and politically radical, Craigie established a reputation as a filmmaker with her 1944 film, Out of Chaos, becoming the first female director to gain national attention...read more

Product Description: Best known as author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), if not also as mother of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft survived domestic violence and unusual independent womanhood to write engaging letters, fiction, history, critical reviews, handbooks and treatises...read more

Encountering anarchists in her native Australia at seventeen led Lynne Segal to a life spent in political activism, beginning with her first arrest for protesting at eighteen. Looking back at a life well lived, here, she considers what formed her generation and what mark they have left on the world.

Presents a poignant biography of the little-known life of Fanny Wollstonecraft, the daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and sister of literary star Mary Shelley, whose own infatuation with Percy Bysshe Shelley took a backseat when her sister eloped with the poet and who tragically ended her life at the age of nineteen.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This new book asks a key question- what did it mean to have a Victorian feminist write for an established newspaper or periodical? Using the example of Frances Power Cobbe, it focuses on Victorian feminism and its political workings, and urges us to reconsider what feminism looked like in the nineteenth-century...read more

A portrait of the author of The Vindication of the Rights of Women traces her pivotal contributions to the founding of feminism, exploring her relationships with three different men and the influence of her ideas on subsequent generations. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: This book represents for the first time The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria and Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" have been published in the same volume, but their history and reception have been inextricably linked since the publication of both in January 1798, less than five months after Mary Wollstonecraft's tragic early death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This is a history of the mindbending sixties from a social historian who lived through it. While chronicling the exhilaration, hope and enthusiasm of the decade, Sheila Rowbotham reflects her younger self's dithering between principle and vanity.

Considered by many to be the very first feminist, Wollstonecraft lived a life of scandal, loving a woman and at least three men, bearing an illegitimate child during the French Revolution, and wrting and publishing her shocking 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'

Using sources previously untapped by modern scholars, this compelling portrait of the author of Frankenstein reveals a social rebel and early feminist who was not afraid to flaut the mores of her time.

Product Description: Florence Fenwick Miller (1854-1936) was a Victorian activist and achiever in the cause of women from her earliest days. Nearly every book on 19th-century British feminism cites her contributions; often lamenting that there is no biography of her career...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Vera Brittain (1893-1970) is best known as the author of Testament of Youth, the eloquent memoir of her World War I experiences that gave voice to a generation forever shattered and haunted by the Great War. Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge provide a full and candid account of Brittain's life that alters in important respects the self-portrait she presented in Testament of Youth and her later autobiographical work, Testament of Experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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