A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
  • Published: 5 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473521926
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

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

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Discover Wollstonecraft’s classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.

Discover Wollstonecraft’s classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS

The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In these pages you will find the essence of her argument – for the education of women and for an increased female contribution to society. Her work made the first ripples of what would later become the tidal wave of the women’s rights movement. Rationalist but revolutionary, Wollstonecraft changed the world for women.

Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form
  • Published: 5 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781473521926
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112
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Mary Wollstonecraft

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 (1788), A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and her most famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). That year she travelled 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 septicaemia shortly after the birth.

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Praise for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

Mary Wollstonecraft's words ring as true today - and are as little heeded by government - as when she wrote them, 200 years ago, in her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Guardian

The first pebble in the later avalanche of the women's rights movement

Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

The first great piece of feminist writing

Independent

Changed the world for generations of women to come

Sunday Times

A book that was bold in its time and is now considered the notable forerunner of the women's movement

New York Times

A radical, rationalist and revolutionary, Wollstonecraft combined faith in both reason and emotion in her seminal work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Sunday Times

Her voice is as fresh and as urgent as ever

Bee Rowlatt, Telegraph

A classic of post-revolutionary thought, shaped by the Enlightenment, Wollstonecraft’s Vindication changed life for women the world over

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