Oxford Portraits Mary Wollstonecraft: Mother of Women's Rights

by Miriam Brody

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first champion of women's rights in the modern Western world. Wollstonecraft's experience teaching young women in London led her to write her first book, in which she argued for equal education for girls and boys. The moderate success of her autobiographical novel Mary, A Fiction convinced her to start writing full-time. Under the tutelage of her publisher and mentor Joseph Johnson, she joined a circle of liberal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195119681
• ISBN13: 9780195119688
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12