An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect It Has Produced in Europe

by Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (Introduction)

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Source British Library

T036310

No further volumes published. With a final advertisement leaf.

London : printed for J. Johnson, 1794. xvi,522,[2]p. ; 8°

Genres: History, Politics, Philosophy, Essays

560 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1794

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth century British writer, philosopher, and feminist. Among the general public and specifically among feminists, Wollstonecraft's life has received much more attention than her writing because of her unconventional, and often tumultuous, personal relationships. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay, Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement; they had one daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Wollstonecraft died at the age of thirty-eight due to complications from childbirth, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts.

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 they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.


After Wollstonecraft's death, Godwin published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for a century. However, with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and work as important influences.

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Reviews

[Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love classics in all forms but non fiction written a very long time ago, does have a special place on my heart and I do not read nearly enough of them. Obviously a lot of the facts can be outdated or not written in a way non fiction would today. But that's part of the charm. I've read a few of Mary Wollstonecraft's works and I can clearly say why her books didn't get forgotten under time. I love her way of writing and they are very readable. Not at all "dusty" as some non fiction can be new or old.

[dean · Rating 5 out of 5]

the honours thesis will be so much fun