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1794 “Rosa California, Countess of Rome” publishes A Brief De-
fense of the Rights of Women in Assisi.
1795 Immanuel Kant’s essay “Perpetual Peace” imagines a world
federation of republics united in respect for the intrinsic value
and individual rights of human beings.
1796 Third London edition of the Rights of Woman published, with
revisions unapproved by the author.
The German edition of the Rights of Woman is translated
into Dutch.
c. 1800 More copies of Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman than Paine’s
Rights of Man are in the personal libraries of Americans.
1801 In Denmark, Jørgen Borch translates the German edition of
the Rights of Woman into Danish, with a similarly conserva-
tive introduction as Salzmann’s, plus a pink ribbon and satin
binding.
1804 Signifying a post-revolutionary backlash against the women’s
human rights discourse that fl ourished in the 1790s, the Pari-
sian editors of La Décade Philosophique et Litteraire position
Wollstonecraft against more conservative female authors such
as Bernier.
1818 In Boston, Hannah Mather Crocker publishes the fi rst
book-length philosophical treatise on women’s human
rights by an American. Her Observations on the Real Rights
of Women engages and quotes Wollstonecraft’s Rights of
Woman.
1826 In Paris, M. César Gardeton produces the fi rst “fake” edition
of the Rights of Woman. Presumably to sell copies, he misat-
tributes Wollstonecraft (“Mistriss Godwin”) as the author
of his The Rights of Women and the Injustice of Men. It is
actually a pirated copy of a French edition of Sophia’s 1739
Woman not inferior to man.
1830s In Rio de Janeiro, educator Nísia Floresta unwittingly trans-
lates Gardeton’s “fake” edition of the Rights of Woman. The
Portuguese text is printed three times across Brazil, making
Wollstonecraft’s name well known there. Floresta’s introduc-
tion to the text, promoting the education of girls, is one of the
founding documents of Brazilian feminism.
1833 Rights of Woman reprinted in New York.
1840 World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Americans
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton meet there, discuss