Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman

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Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

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Language: English

Published by: True Sign Publishing House

Published on: 20 April 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9789355843999


Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between women. Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin's scandalous Memoirs of Wollstonecraft's life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published.

Twentieth-century feminist critics embraced the work, integrating it into the history of the novel and feminist discourse. It is most often viewed as a fictionalized popularization of the Rights of Woman, as an extension of Wollstonecraft's feminist arguments in Rights of Woman, and as autobiographical.

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