JaNel’s Reviews > Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries > Status Update

Banning of books is not new
Susannah Wright opens a progressive bookstore and “ the town of Nottingham is in an uproar… And for what? Because a woman is exposing Paine’s Age of Reason for public sale… Every blockhead is condemning books he never read, and every bigot feels himself scandalized…“

Susannah Wright…what a boss!

Barbauld…The will of the minority should never yield to that of the majority

Anna Letitia Barbauld…She consider the duties of a citizen in relation to its government… “A good government is the first of national duties and requires constant vigilance a good government will probably not last, if it’s conceived of it as of an indolent and passive happiness, to be left for its preservation to fortunate conjectures and variable chances… Our second duty is to keep it good.”

The positive review of “the vindication of the rights of men” in the Edinburgh Review was convinced that the author was a man, and was irritated to find that she was in fact female; it would it said, have affected how they reviewed it had they known.

Her “vindication of the rights of men”… still stands as a cry of infuriated exasperation as the chance to make men and women equal citizens slipped by

She believed passionately that women could be fundamentally changed by education, and that this intern would benefit society as a whole…

Mary Wollstonecraft … “Market women and the queen alike or suffering from a lack of education and with us denied the possibility of developing into rational beings”