A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), by Mary Wollstonecraft, was published in London during the third year of the French Revolution and the fifth year of George Washington's presidency of the new United States of America. Responding to other writers who praised or attacked these antimonarchical uprisings, the tone of the book is by turn confrontational, instructive, harshly critical, sarcastically funny, idealistic, and visionary. Rooting her argument that women deserve an education...

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Born April 27, 1759, Mary Wollstonecraft became one of the most influential intellectuals of late eighteenth-century Britain. In her shor... Read more

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Awoman with a tumultuous career, Mary Wollstonecraft was a single parent, writer, teacher, mistress, wife to a philosopher, and mother of... Read more

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Mary Jane Godwin

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Although Mary Godwin is a significant literary figure in her own right, the following essay focuses on the literary collaboration of Godwin and her husband William Godwin.William Godwin and his second... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Biography EssayMary Wollstonecraft's literary and political reputation as one of the most important voices at the center of British feminism has never been more secure. Her early reviewing and educati... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft's main claim to the attention of posterity rests on her radical critique of patriarchal rule, in its public and private forms, in the England of her day. She gained contemporary fa... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft's achievement as a prose writer is twofold. She was the most notable arguer for women's equality in her time. She also explored new ways of arguing for such equality as a woman in ... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft deserves recognition as an important British reform writer for her vigorous agitation for political and social improvement during the 1780s and 1790s. She used her works to explore... Read more

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft is the most famous feminist of the eighteenth century. Her writings provided an inspiration for later feminist movements and became particularly popular with second-wave feminism i... Read more