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          Lecture series to focus on 18th-century feminist Wollstonecraft

          
            
              
                
                Published: October 05, 2005
              

              
                Author: Erik Runyon
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Examining the life and political theory of 18th-century Anglo-Irish feminist, writer and intellectual Mary Wollstonecraft is the focus of a lecture series sponsored by the Program in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

TitledMary Wollstonecraft and her Legacies,the series includes presentations by historians, political scientists and biographers.

Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon will deliver the lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 12) in McKenna Hall.TitledMary Wollstonecrafts America,the talk is based on Gordons recent biography of Wollstonecraft titledVindication,published by Harper Collins earlier this year. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

Gordon is a research fellow at St. Hildas College, Oxford University, and a member of the Royal Society of Literature.She is author of critically acclaimed biographies of Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Henry James, and she is the recipient of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography and the Cheltenham Prize for Literature.

The remainder of the schedule is at http://www.nd.edu/%7Egender/CE.html .Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an early advocate for equality of the sexes who ridiculed the prevailing notions of women as dependent and unintelligent. Many of her ideas are main doctrines of contemporary womens movements.

Other sponsors of the speaker series include Notre Dames Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Creative Writing Program, Nanovic Center for European Studies, Program in American Democracy, and Departments of Political Science, Philosophy, History, and English.

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