Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Mary Wollstonecraft

"Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a children's book first published in 1788. Two young girls, Mary and Caroline, are sent to live with the wise Mrs. Mason after their mother's death. Through stories, lessons, and real-world examples, Mrs. Mason works to cure the girls of their moral failings—greediness, vanity, and other faults—and teach them to become rational, virtuous women. The book challenges eighteenth-century assumptions about female education and champions the power of proper childhood instruction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
Editor Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Illustrator Blake, William, 1757-1827
Uniform Title Original stories from real life
Title Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Stories_from_Real_Life
Credits This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler
Reading Level Reading ease score: 64.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Short stories
Subject Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Children's stories
Subject Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction
Subject Didactic fiction, English
Subject Virtues -- Juvenile fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 36507
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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