The complete online text of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary 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 educational writing did not gain her a wide audience, but with the publicati...

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 domains and discourses dominated by men. She looked fo...

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 in the 1960s. She earned her own living as a paid compa...

In writing The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798)-her last unfinished novel-Wollstonecraft would appear to have been paralyzed or in the grip of a compulsion that allowed her only to imagine various scenarios of traumatic disaster for her heroine. While she exposed and...

In Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1792), the heroine is married to a dissolute man who, having squandered her dowry and facing financial ruin, attempts to prostitute her to an affluent "friend" from whom he wishes to borrow money. This...