A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

252 Norma Clarke the libertine John Wilkes, “Wilkes and liberty!”) made avowed religious purposes all the more important. There ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 253 opening sentence of Strictures—“one of the most feminist she ever wrote,” in which More compla ...

254 Norma Clarke creating her authorial persona (Labbe 2010, 218). Novelists also used pref- atory notes and essays to address r ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 255 least once in the latter part of the 1790s and remained friends with Wil- liam Godwin after Wo ...

256 Norma Clarke passion” and Martineau, a well-regarded intellectual after the model of the bluestockings, wanted nothing to do ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 257 son 1975, 17). It appeared at the same time as the avowed story of her life, Memoirs of the Au ...

258 Norma Clarke to build a university for women. Robinson reminded women they were “not the mere appendages of domestic life, b ...

“Genius will educate itself.” 259 Literary Ladies of England. When the two leading educational campaign- ers, Emily Davies and B ...

260 Norma Clarke some (those of the Martineau persuasion) this was cause for regret; for others it exemplifi ed the popular slog ...

The Personal Is Political Wollstonecraft’s Witty, First-Person, Feminist Voice EILEEN HUNT BOTTING Wollstonecraft’s novel Maria, ...

262 Eileen Hunt Botting The phrase “rights of woman” was bandied about in French, American, and British public discourse — more ...

The Personal Is Political 263 2005, 52; Botting 2006, 160; Taylor 2007, 89). As Karen Offen has argued, Wollstonecraft “insists ...

264 Eileen Hunt Botting rhetorical idiom and theoretical approach that unites a variety of feminist schools of thought, then and ...

The Personal Is Political 265 she played on the ambiguity of whether this phrase modifi ed the “I” or the “you”: “Consider, I ad ...

266 Eileen Hunt Botting Wollstonecraft then presents three basic principles of human nature: reason exalts humans over other spe ...

The Personal Is Political 267 sarcasm to show how supposedly progressive eighteenth-century educa- tional practices, such as tho ...

268 Eileen Hunt Botting commented, “but they might as well pine married as single — and would not be a jot more unhappy with a b ...

The Personal Is Political 269 political rights to women; and long-term social reform of gender and class norms through free publ ...

270 Eileen Hunt Botting interior psychology of patriarchal oppression, and to elicit greater sympa- thy for the cause of women’s ...

The Personal Is Political 271 identify with the suffering of the working-class Jemima by listening to her personal story of life ...