1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. My Texts, Abbreviations, and Short Titles xiii
6. Prologue: Why Mary Wollstonecraft? Why A Vindication? 1
7. 1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman” 19
8. 2. Picturing Mary Wollstonecraft: The Right Woman 39
9. 3. “An Amazon stept out”: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) 59
10. 4. “Revolution in female manners”: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792) 79
11. 5. Dystopian Nightmare: Paris, December 26, 1792 137
12. 6. “bastilled . . . for life”: The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; a Fragment (1798) 143
13. Epilogue: “we hear her voice” 155
14. Brief Glossary of Recurring Names 163
15. Notes 167
16. Further Reading and Bibliographies 173
17. Index 181