Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

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Overview

Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. [Source: Wikipedia]

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781979324366
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 11/02/2017
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.27(d)

About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she extended the radical idea of the "rights of man" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism.
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