List of Illustrations.

About Longman Cultural Editions.

About This Edition.

Introduction.

Table of Dates.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman.

Contexts.

The Rights of Women.

The Condition of Women.

from A Report from the Committee appointed to Enquire into the State of the Private Madhouses in this Kingdom (1763) .

from The Mansfield Judgment (1772).

Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz, “Women of the Town,” from A Picture of England (1789).

Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay, from Letters on Education (1790).

Responses to Wollstonecraft.

Anna Letitia Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman” (1825; comp. 1793).

Mary Hays, from Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous (1793).

Richard Polwhele, from The Unsex’d Females (1798).

Priscilla Bell Wakefield, from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; with Suggestions for its Improvement (1798).

Mary Anne Radcliffe, from The Female Advocate (1799).

Hannah More, from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799).

William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, from Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery (1825).

Literary Sources for Maria.

Jean-Jacque Rousseau, from La Nouvelle Heloise (1761; trans. William Kenrick, 1764).

Hannah More, from Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen (1782).

Ann Radcliffe, from A Sicilian Romance (1790).

William Godwin, from Caleb Williams (1794).

Frances Burney, from Camilla (1796).

Contemporary Reviews.

Reviews for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Reviews for Maria.

Further Reading.