SOURCE: "The Female (As) Reader: Sex, Sensibility, and the Maternal in Wollstonecraft's Fictions," Essays in Literature, Vol. XIX, No. 1, Spring 1992, pp. 36-54.
In the following essay, Maurer contends that, in her fiction, Wollstonecraft attempts to develop an active subjectivity for women "that is constituted in direct relation to a woman's role as mother."
