{"product_id":"2940012571670","title":"A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1.  THE RIGHTS AND INVOLVED DUTIES OF MANKIND CONSIDERED.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2.  THE PREVAILING OPINION OF A SEXUAL CHARACTER DISCUSSED.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3.  THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4.  OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF DEGRADATION TO WHICH WOMAN\u003cbr\u003eIS REDUCED BY VARIOUS CAUSES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5.  ANIMADVERSIONS ON SOME OF THE WRITERS WHO HAVE RENDERED\u003cbr\u003eWOMEN OBJECTS OF PITY, BORDERING ON CONTEMPT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6.  THE EFFECT WHICH AN EARLY ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS HAS UPON\u003cbr\u003eTHE CHARACTER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7.  MODESTY.  COMPREHENSIVELY CONSIDERED, AND NOT AS A\u003cbr\u003eSEXUAL VIRTUE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8.  MORALITY UNDERMINED BY SEXUAL NOTIONS OF THE IMPORTANCE\u003cbr\u003eOF A GOOD REPUTATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9. OF THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS WHICH ARISE FROM THE UNNATURAL\u003cbr\u003eDISTINCTIONS ESTABLISHED IN SOCIETY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10.  PARENTAL AFFECTION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11.  DUTY TO PARENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12.  ON NATIONAL EDUCATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 13.  SOME INSTANCES OF THE FOLLY WHICH THE IGNORANCE OF\u003cbr\u003eWOMEN GENERATES; WITH CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL\u003cbr\u003eIMPROVEMENT THAT A REVOLUTION IN FEMALE MANNERS MAY NATURALLY BE\u003cbr\u003eEXPECTED TO PRODUCE.\u003cbr\u003e8 April, 2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eM. Wollstonecraft was born in 1759.  Her father was so great a\u003cbr\u003ewanderer, that the place of her birth is uncertain; she supposed,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, it was London, or Epping Forest:  at the latter place she\u003cbr\u003espent the first five years of her life.  In early youth she\u003cbr\u003eexhibited traces of exquisite sensibility, soundness of\u003cbr\u003eunderstanding, and decision of character; but her father being a\u003cbr\u003edespot in his family, and her mother one of his subjects, Mary,\u003cbr\u003ederived little benefit from their parental training.  She received\u003cbr\u003eno literary instructions but such as were to be had in ordinary day\u003cbr\u003eschools.  Before her sixteenth year she became acquainted with Mr.\u003cbr\u003eClare a clergyman, and Miss Frances Blood; the latter, two years\u003cbr\u003eolder than herself; who possessing good taste and some knowledge of\u003cbr\u003ethe fine arts, seems to have given the first impulse to the\u003cbr\u003eformation of her character.  At the age of nineteen, she left her\u003cbr\u003eparents, and resided with a Mrs. Dawson for two years; when she\u003cbr\u003ereturned to the parental roof to give attention to her mother,\u003cbr\u003ewhose ill health made her presence necessary.  On the death of her\u003cbr\u003emother, Mary bade a final adieu to her father's house, and became\u003cbr\u003ethe inmate of F. Blood; thus situated, their intimacy increased,\u003cbr\u003eand a strong attachment was reciprocated.  In 1783 she commenced a\u003cbr\u003eday school at Newington green, in conjunction with her friend, F.\u003cbr\u003eBlood.  At this place she became acquainted with Dr. Price, to whom\u003cbr\u003eshe became strongly attached; the regard was mutual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is said that she became a teacher from motives of benevolence,\u003cbr\u003eor rather philanthropy, and during the time she continued in the\u003cbr\u003eprofession, she gave proof of superior qualification for the\u003cbr\u003eperformance of its arduous and important duties.  Her friend and\u003cbr\u003ecoadjutor married and removed to Lisbon, in Portugal, where she\u003cbr\u003edied of a pulmonary disease; the symptoms of which were visible\u003cbr\u003ebefore her marriage.  So true was Mary's attachment to her, that\u003cbr\u003eshe entrusted her school to the care of others, for the purpose of\u003cbr\u003eattending Frances in her closing scene.  She aided, as did Dr.\u003cbr\u003eYoung, in \"Stealing Narcissa a grave.\"  Her mind was expanded by\u003cbr\u003ethis residence in a foreign country, and though clear of religious\u003cbr\u003ebigotry before, she took some instructive lessons on the evils of\u003cbr\u003esuperstition, and intolerance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn her return she found the school had suffered by her absence, and\u003cbr\u003ehaving previously decided to apply herself to literature, she now\u003cbr\u003eresolved to commence.  In 1787 she made, or received, proposals\u003cbr\u003efrom Johnson, a publisher in London, who was already acquainted\u003cbr\u003ewith her talents as an author.  During the three subsequent years,\u003cbr\u003eshe was actively engaged, more in translating, condensing, and\u003cbr\u003ecompiling, than in the production of original works.  At this time\u003cbr\u003eshe laboured under much depression of spirits, for the loss of her\u003cbr\u003efriend; this rather increased, perhaps, by the publication of\u003cbr\u003e\"Mary, a novel,\" which was mostly composed of incidents and\u003cbr\u003ereflections connected with their intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pecuniary concerns of her father becoming embarrassed, Mary\u003cbr\u003epractised a rigid economy in her expenditures, and with her savings\u003cbr\u003ewas enabled to procure her sisters and brothers situations, to\u003cbr\u003ewhich without her aid, they could not have had access; her father\u003cbr\u003ewas sustained at length from her funds; she even found means to\u003cbr\u003etake under her protection an orphan child.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069411836144,"sku":"2940012571670","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012571670_p0.jpg?v=1763570322","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012571670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}