what is the history behind this literature?
The author showed a keen and vital concern with education, especially the education of girls and women.
Original Stories from Real Life
Wollstonecraft's "oeuvre" shows "a keen and vital concern with education, especially the education of girls and women".
what is original stories from real life? Children's literature
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Original Stories from Real Life [SEP] Historical and biographical context
Wollstonecraft's "oeuvre" shows "a keen and vital concern with education, especially the education of girls and women". One year before she published "Original Stories", she wrote a conduct book (a popular 18th-century genre, akin to the modern self-help book) entitled "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" (1787), which describes how to raise the ideal middle-class woman. In 1789, she assembled "The Female Speaker", a text meant to edify the minds of young women by exposing them to literature; she modelled it after William Enfield's anthology "The Speaker", which was designed specifically for men. Just one year later, she translated Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's "Elements of Morality", a popular German pedagogical text.