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Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

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1799232 pagesIndependently Published

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Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novel tells the story of a woman unjustly confined to an asylum by her husband. It's a powerful critique of marriage and the legal system in 18th-century Britain, exploring how societal structures and personal sentimentality can lead to women's oppression. This radical feminist work also pioneered themes of female sexuality and solidarity across social classes.

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Mary Wollstonecraft (pronounced /ˈwʊlstən.krɑːft/; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because th...

English journalist, political philosopher and novelist

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MariaProtagonist
William GodwinSupporting

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