{"id":190,"date":"2006-09-16T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-09-16T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:21:00","slug":"vindication-by-lyndall-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/09\/vindication-by-lyndall-gordon.html","title":{"rendered":"Vindication by Lyndall Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000H0M6LO\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft<\/a> was just too dry for me.  I don&#8217;t know these people well enough to care that much for them and the writing didn&#8217;t make me know them or care for them.  There were too many deviations into the lives of people she knew and their minor scandals or confusions.  The chapters devoted to the silver ship, for instance.  Who cares about the silver ship?  That she went to Scandanavia is relevent, I guess, since she wrote a book there, but do we need to know every detail of why she went and what she learned about this stupid silver ship?  No, we do not.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, it&#8217;s hard to see that Wollstonecraft made any lasting difference.  She was ahead of her time in certain thoughts to be sure, but her influence appears to have been very narrow and easily forgotten.  And the people she had obvious influence on &#8211; the girls whose lives are detailed in the last chapters &#8211; all turned out rather badly.  So although her principles appear to have been sound, their practicality, at least at that point in history, is debatable.<\/p>\n<p>I was glad to be done with this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft was just too dry for me. I don&#8217;t know these people well enough to care that much for them and the writing didn&#8217;t make me know them or care for them. There were too many deviations into the lives of people she knew and their minor scandals or confusions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosauto-biosmemoirs","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}