Emily Bronte， Mary Shelley，Mary Wollstonecraft，Dorothy Wordsworth

I think Mary Wollstonecraft’s selection from The Vindication of the Rights of Women is a complex piece. What are some of the main points that you think Wollstonecraft is trying to make in her text? Be specific and refer to details of the essay. （200 words）

Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman: pages 1131 – 1140:

• CHAPTER IX of Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420 (Links to an external site.)

Dorothy Wordsworth did not write with the intention of being published. Why was she published, and why is her literature important?200 words

Dorothy Wordsworth: Excerpts from The Grasmere Journal (4 pages: sorry for 4 different documents):

• Wordsworth 1.pdf, Wordsworth 2.pdf, Wordsworth 3.pdf, Wordsworth 4.pdf

After reading about Mary Shelley and reading her introduction of Frankenstein, why do you think she’s an important writer to study in the history of women’s literature? Why do you think her novel is so beloved and so controversial?（200 words）

Mary Shelley:

• Introduction to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro
• http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1…

My lecture is about the Bronte family, and I had you read a selection of just Emily Bronte’s poetry. What are your reactions to E. Bronte’s poems? How do you compare them with some of the other literature we have read so far ? Be specific and refer to details of the literature!（200 words）

Emily Bronte:1. [Alone I sat; the summer day] by Emily Bronte

• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_complete_poems_of_Emily_Bronte.djvu/158 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• 2. “To Imagination” by Emily Bronte http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/75/poems-of-emily-bronte/5645/to-imagination/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• 3. “The Night Wind” by Emily Bronte http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/75/poems-of-emily-bronte/5160/the-night-wind/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• 4. “R. Alcona to J. Brenzaida” by Emily Bronte
  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bronte/poems/pbe-remembrance.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.OR https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/r-alcona-to-j-brenzaida/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• 5. [No coward soul is mine] by Emily Bronte
  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43712/no-coward-soul-is-mine (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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