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1878 First International Congress on Women’s Rights, Paris.
1890 – 96 Rights of Woman printed in English six times for its
centennial, in London and New York. British women’s
suffragist Millicent Fawcett, the American biographer of
Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Robins Pennell in Budapest, and
the colonial South African feminist Olive Schreiner are
commissioned to write introductory essays for the new
English editions —with Schreiner’s remaining unfi nished
in manuscript form.
1893 New Zealand is the fi rst self-governing country to grant
suffrage to women at the national level.
1898 A recent PhD from the University of Bern, Emma
Rauschenbusch-Clough, publishes the fi rst doctoral disserta-
tion and book on the philosophy of Wollstonecraft, focusing
on the Rights of Woman and tracing its reception in Germany.
1899 Bertha Pappenheim, the leader of the Jewish women’s move-
ment in Germany at the turn of the century, produces the
second German translation of Rights of Woman, published in
Dresden and Leipzig.
1901 A recent PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, Elvira
Lopez, publishes her dissertation The Feminist Movement
in Argentina. The book assesses contemporary debates on
women’s issues across Europe, British India, Australia, Africa,
and Latin America, with a chapter devoted to Argentina.
Lopez traces the historical roots of international fi n de siècle
feminism, describing England as the origin of “La idea femi-
nista.” She cites Saint Thomas More, Mary Astell, and, with
greatest emphasis, Wollstonecraft and her Quaker and aboli-
tionist followers in the United States as the crucial philosophi-
cal developers of the Anglo origins of the now global idea of
feminism.
1904 Czech edition of Rights of Woman published in Prague, trans-
lated and introduced by Anna Holmová.
1914 –17 Many women’s movements put their campaigns on hold dur-
ing World War I, or become active in the peace cause.
1929 Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman and Mill’s Subjection of
Women bound together in the globally published Everyman
edition.
English novelist Virginia Woolf concludes her essay on
Mary Wollstonecraft with a positive assessment of her infl u-