A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/06/2022

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A modern and beautifully redesigned version of the classic text. Wollstonecraft's landmark text may often be forgotten amidst the heroic actions of the suffragettes over 100 years later, but the effect it had can not be underestimated. At a time when women were far from equals, Wollstonecraft helped to make the intellectual case for equality that underpinned eventual social change. Today - like in the works of many classics - Wollstonecraft's ideas may not appear particularly groundbreaking, but at the time they were radical. She was not alone in making the claim for women's rights, at a time when women were deemed as property, but she did provide us one of the finest examples of moral bravery through literature. It was these kinds of ideas that provided a platform for real social change.

ISBN:
9781910780053
9781910780053
Category:
Feminism & feminist theory
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-06-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ockham Publishing
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was an educational, political and feminist writer who early in her life worked as a companion, teacher and governess.

In 1788 she settled in London as a translator and reader for the publisher Joseph Johnson, becoming part of the radical set that included Paine, Blake, Godwin and the painter Fuseli. Her great work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was published in 1792.

She lived in Paris during the French Revolution and had a child by the American Gilbert Imlay, who deserted her. She returned to London in 1795 and, following her attempted suicide, became involved with Godwin, whom she married in 1797, shortly before the birth (which proved fatal) of her daughter, the future Mary Shelley. She left several unfinished works, including Maria.

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