Although the Memoirs and post-revolutionary politics everywhere dampened and even drove underground the reception of her persona and ideas in the first decades of the nineteenth century, Wollstonecraft’s reception in nineteenth-century continental Europe, like the United States, was more positive and sustained in comparison to the public backlash she faced as a “fallen woman” in her homeland of Britain through the bulk of the Victorian era. By providing the first full-scale reception history of Wollstonecraft in continental Europe in the long nineteenth century-drawing on rare book research, translations of understudied primary sources, and Wollstonecraft scholarship from the nineteenth century to the present-this article applies a revised Rezeptionsgeschichte approach to tracing her intellectual influence on the woman question and organized feminism in Europe. From Maria or, The Wrongs of Woman, chapter 5 Mary Wollstonecraft 'MY FATHER,' said Jemima, 'seduced my mother, a pretty girl, with whom he lived fellow-servant and she no sooner perceived the natural, the dreaded consequence, than the terrible conviction flashed on her - that she was ruined. " " It has often been repeated that Wollstonecraft was not read for a century after her death in 1797 due to the negative impact of her husband William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798) on her posthumous reputation.
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