A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Volume I, third edition
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1796
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de Beer Eb 1796 W
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London: Printed for J. Johnson
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a founding text of modern feminism. In the decade leading up to this monumental work, Mary helped establish a school for girls and wrote the conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), and the novel Mary: A Fiction (1788). In all of these works, she argued that women deserved rational educations and greater individual rights in order to be better wives and mothers. But her opportunity to put this philosophy into action was short lived. She died just days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.
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Mary Wollstonecraft, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Volume I, third edition,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 9, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10172.