A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Vintage Feminism Short Edition (Vintage Classics)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

ISBN 10: 1784870390 / ISBN 13: 9781784870393

Published by Vintage Classics, 2015

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Synopsis:

Argues for the education of women and for an increased female contribution to society. This work made the first ripples of what would later become the tidal wave of the women's rights movement. Rationalist but revolutionary, it changed the world for women.

About the Author: 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, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, and her most famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. That year she traveled 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 septicemia shortly after the birth. Zoe Williams is a columnist, journalist, and the author of Bring It On, Baby and What Not to Expect When You're Expecting.

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: ...
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good