•1759 

–>MW Born 21 April 

 •1763-1777 (ages 4-18)

–>Family moves six times each move representing downward social mobility and economic viability but gave her insights into regional class gender and cultural divisions of late 18th century Britain.

•1778 (age 19)

 –> MW employed as a lady’s companion

•1781(age 22)

–> MW moves back to nurse her mother

•1782 (age 23) 

–>19 April MWs mother dies

–> 20 October MWs sister Eliza marries 

–>MW moves in with the Blood family

•1783 (age 24)

–>Eliza gives birth to a daughter

•1784 (age 25)

–>MW moves in with Eliza who is suffering post-natal depression.

–>MW persuades Eliza to leave her husband and baby

–>MW, Eliza, Everina and Fanny Blood set up a school in Newington Green

 –>Eliza’s daughter dies 

•1785 (age 26)

–>Fanny Blood marries Hugh Skeys in Portugal.

–>MW goes to Portugal to help Fanny when her child is born.

–>Fanny dies from consumption

•1786 (age 27)

–> School at Newington Green closes

–>MW writes Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

–>MW goes to work as a governess to Lord and Lady Kingsborough at Mitchelstown.

•1787 (age 28)

–> MW dismissed by Kingsboroughs.  Moves to London and given work as a translator by Johnson

•1788 (age 29)

–> Publication of Mary and Original Stories •Johnson and Christie set up Analytical Review.

–>MW works as a reviewer

•1789 (age 30)

–> 14 July Fall of Bastille begins French Revolution

–>Slave trade resolutions introduced by Wilberforce

–> Blake publishes Songs of Innocence 

•1791(age 32)

–>MW begins writing Vindication of the Rights of Woman

–> MW meets Godwin at Johnson’s dinner party

•1792 (age 33)

–>Vindication of the Rights of Woman published

–>MW goes to Paris

•1793 (age 34)

–> 21 Jan: Execution of Louis XVI

–>1 Feb: France declares war on England

–> April: MW meets Imlay begins relationship

–>June: Reign of Terror begins.  MW moves to Neuilly-sur-Seine

–> August: MW becomes pregnant and moves back to Paris.  Is registered by Imlay as his wife at the American Embassy

–> 16 October: Execution of Marie Antoinette 

 •1794 (age 35)

–>Birth of Fanny Imlay

•1795 (age 36)

–> April: MW moves back to London, 1st suicide attempt

–>June: MW goes to Scandinavia with Marguerite her maid and Fanny

–>August: MW returns to London

–>October: Second suicide attempt

•1796 (age 37)

–>March: MW meets Imlay by chance – final meeting 

–>April: MW calls on Godwin

–>July: MW begins relationship with Godwin

•1797 (age 38)

–> Feb: MW pregnant

–> March: MW Marries Godwin

–> 30 August: Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

–> 10 September: MW dies of puerperal fever

 

HER WRITINGS

 

Works published during her lifetime

 •1787

–>Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, with reflections on female conduct, in the more important duties of life

–>Mary: A Fiction

•1788: Original Stories from Real Life with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and form the Mind to Truth and Goodness

•1790: A Vindication of the Rights of Men

•1792: Vindication of the Rights of Woman

•1794: An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it has Produced in Europe

•1796: Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

•1797: On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature

Works published posthumously

•After Mary’s death, William Godwin edited and published an edition of Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman in Four Volumes.  The contents were: The Wrongs of Woman or Maria: A Fragment; Lessons; Letters to Gilbert Imlay.

  

URL: [PPT] Birth of Feminisms Formato de archivo: Microsoft Powerpoint – Versión en HTML

 

OTHER INTERESTING CHRONOLOGIES

 

Information in wikipedia. This page contains detailed information, so it can be useful in order you to make a general idea

The following websites contain similar information but more specifically related to the author, not so general, because up in the main chronology we can find both the author’s biography but also a historical frame.  [1] [2] [3] [4]

Here you can find a very complete website talking about Mary W. and her daughter. Besides of the timeline, here you have videos,  news, blogs, books, pictures, etc. The only one thing is that the page is not translated into english.

 

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