Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women’s emancipation in the context o...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaratio...

Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtual...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, ...

These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary...

In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and ...

Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft’s argument cont...

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'She is alive and active - we hear her voice and trace her influence even now' Virginia WoolfWriting in an age when the call for the rights of man ...

A seminal book in a feminist conversation that still continues today.Now regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, Mary Wollstonecraft...

Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand’s report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic educ...

Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's educ...