A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman, 2d ed. (reprint, 1792).HQ1596 2004-559869 0-14-144125-9 A vindication of the rights of woman A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. , 2d ed. (reprint reprint An individually bound copy of an article in a journal or science communication , 1792) Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary (w  l`stənkräft, –krăft), 1759–97, English author and feminist, b. London. . Ed. by Miriam Brody. (Penguin classics)
Penguin Books, [c]2004 269 p. $11.00 (pa) Wollstonecraft grew up in the fields of the countryside rather than in middle-class drawing rooms, supported herself through her pen rather than through a husband, and eventually entered into a marriage that provided complete independence for both parties. This, one of her first published works, was no less scandalous MATTER, SCANDALOUS, equity pleading. A false and malicious statement of facts, not relevant to the cause. But nothing which is positively relevant, however harsh or gross the charge may be, can be considered scandalous. 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 4163. 2. than her life, causing comment even amongst the radicals with whom Wollstonecraft associated. Along with the complete 1792 second edition prepared by Wollstonecraft, scholar Brody supplies a biographical sketch, commentary and notes, and a list of further reading. |
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