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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
This etext was produced by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1889 Cassell & Company edition. LETTERS ON SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK by Mary Wollstonecraft INTRODUCTION. Mary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her father–a quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dog–was the son of a manufacturer
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftWith Strictures on Polital and Moral Subjects
…pardon my frankness, but I
must observe, that you treated it in too cursory a manner,
contented to consider it as it had been considered formerly, when
the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as
chimerical. I call upon you, therefore, now to weigh what I have
advanced respecting the rights of woman, and national education;
must observe, that you treated it in too cursory a manner,
contented to consider it as it had been considered formerly, when
the rights of man, not to advert to woman, were trampled on as
chimerical. I call upon you, therefore, now to weigh what I have
advanced respecting the rights of woman, and national education;