Draft Fragment of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Episode 12 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Draft Fragment of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Join Liz Denlinger of the New York Public Library as she examines a draft page from “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” by Mary Wollstonecraft. Written in the author’s hand, it is now a part of NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Draft Fragment of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
Episode 12 | 57sVideo has Closed Captions
Join Liz Denlinger of the New York Public Library as she examines a draft page from “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman,” by Mary Wollstonecraft. Written in the author’s hand, it is now a part of NYPL’s Polonsky Exhibition.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipLiz: This is a draft manuscript fragment of "A vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer born in the mid-18th century, and she was one of the first English female writers to enter the political fray, which she did not with "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," but with "A Vindication of the Rights of Men."
So, the "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" appeared very early in 1792.
It sets out a claim for women's equality in society based really on morality.
It's a treatise arguing for, really, what she called a revolution in female manners.
And in her day, it was quite successful, and its significance is that it makes an intellectual base for the kinds of arguments that have continued ever since.
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