Contents
Editor’s Introduction: Reading Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman, 1792–
Eileen Hunt Botting 1
Text
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London, second edition, 1792)
Mary Wollstonecraft 19
Essays
Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Rights for Women
Ruth Abbey 229
“Genius will educate itself.” The British Literary Context of
Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Its
Legacy for Women
Norma Clarke 246
The Personal Is Political: Wollstonecraft’s Witty, First-Person,
Feminist Voice
Eileen Hunt Botting 261
Reading Mary Wollstonecraft in Time
Virginia Sapiro 280
Appendixes
Biographical Directory for Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the
Rights of Woman
Madeline Cronin 291
The Life and Times of Wollstonecraft and Her Family, 1688 –
Madeline Cronin and Eileen Hunt Botting 308
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman within the Women’s Human
Rights Tradition, 1739 –
Eileen Hunt Botting and Madeline Cronin 315
Bibliography 323
Index 333