PhilosophersMary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women share the same reason: educate them accordingly.

Enlightenment · Feminist philosophy1759 – 1797 United KingdomEnlightenment philosopherPioneer of feminismPolitical thinkerEducator

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1787

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Her first book, drawn from her experience as a schoolmistress. Not yet in our corpus.

Written and published by the author

1790

A Vindication of the Rights of Men essential

The very first published reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, written in a few weeks. First edition anonymous; the second (December 1790, our text) bears her name.

Written and published by the author

1792

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman essential

Dedicated to Talleyrand. We quote the first edition (January 1792): she revised the text the same year, and many modern quotations follow the revised version. A promised second volume never appeared.

Written and published by the author

1794

An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

Written in Paris during the Terror. Not yet in our corpus.

Written and published by the author

1796

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

A travel book, her most widely read in her lifetime. Not yet in our corpus.

Written and published by the author

1798

The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria

An unfinished novel, published after her death by Godwin. Not yet in our corpus.

Written by the author, published posthumously