A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for womens emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two great upheavals.
Mary Wollstonecraft was born in 1759 in Spitalfields, London. After an unsettled childhood, she opened a school following which, her first work, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, was published in 1787. After a stint as governess in Ireland, she continued to write and published several other works including Mary (1788), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and her most famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). That year she travelled to Paris where she met Gilbert Imlay, by whom she had a daughter, Fanny. Her travels around Scandinavia with her baby daughter in 1795, inspired her travel book Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, but on returning to London Imlay’s neglect drove her to two suicide attempts. In 1797 she married William Godwin, and had a daughter, the future Mary Shelley. Wollstonecraft died of septicaemia shortly after the birth.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857150865 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857150864 |
| Title | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Series | Everyman's Library Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Everyman |
| Year published | 1992-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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