Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

Overview

In Maria, Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'

Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtually the property of their husbands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393311693
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1994
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	709,554
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(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.