A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects is a 1792 essay by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. It is considered a feminis
First edition title page
The Debutante (1807) by Henry Fuseli; "Woman, the victim of male social conventions, is tied to the wall, made to sew and guarded by governesses. The picture reflects Mary Wollstonecraft's views in The Rights of Women [sic]".
Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1833)
Rousseau's Emile (1762)
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The Wrongs of Woman was published pos
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
…observant daughters, more affectionate sisters, more faithful wives, more reasonable mothers – in a word, better citizens. Wollstonecraft's last novel, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798), the fictionalized sequel to the Rights of Woman, is usually considered her most radical feminist work. One of Wollstonecraft's most scathing…
Title page, 1798
Final plate from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, showing Bedlam, a famous insane asylum in Britain
Joseph Highmore's rendition of Pamela fainting as Mr. B. attempts to rape her (1743–4), a scene that came to epitomize sensibility in the eighteenth century
"The First Kiss of Love", from Rousseau's Julie, or the New Heloise (1761), illustrated by Nicolas-André Monsiau