A Wollstonecraft Anthology / Edition 1

by Janet Todd

Overview

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists. Some of her works, such as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, have become central texts of feminist thought. Written in the eighteenth century, her social commentary challenged the other eminent thinkers of the day, including Edmund Burke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and confronted the major events of the period, such as the French Revolution. Wollstonecraft was a persuasive writer and thinker who never felt compelled to separate her female experience from her writing.

A Wollstonecraft Anthology brings together the well-known and lesser-known texts: A Vindication of the Rights of Men, The French Revolution, her early educational writings, her letters to Gilbert Imlay and William Godwin, and her reviews of fiction. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Wollstonecraft's work and includes a biographic introduction by Janet Todd.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231072519
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/08/1990
Edition description:	Columbia University Press Morningside ed
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	0.64(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Janet Todd is Research Professor of English at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life and The Sign of Angelica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1600-1800.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Courtesy Books
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
Original Stories from Real Life
"Letters on the Management of Infants"
Part 2: Works of Controversy
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Review of Catherine Macaulay's Letters on Education
Part 3: Works of Commentary
Letter to Joseph Johnson
"Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation"
An Historical and Moral View of... the French Revolution
Letters Written... in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
"On Poetry and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature"
"Hints"
Part 4: Works of Fiction
Mary, A Fiction
The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria
Reviews of Novels
Part 5: Letters
Letters to Imlay
Letters to Godwin
Letter to a Friend

Editorial Reviews

Wollstonecraft has always been recognized as a distinctive, sometimes notorious, champion for women's rights; this anthology reminds us these include emotional and intellectual as well as political rights.

English Language Notes

A sensibly chosen and well edited collection.

Nineteenth-Century Prose