Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson

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Joining us to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and her seminal work, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, is Dr. Susan J. Wolfson, a professor of English from Princeton University whose scholarship focuses on British Writers of the Romantic period. Her latest book, On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was published in April 2023 by Columbia University Press.
Discussed:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rig…)
"On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Susan J. Wolfson (cup.columbia.edu/book/on-mary-wollstonecrafts-…)
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein)
"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_the_Educatio…)
"A Vindication of the Rights of Men" by Mary Wollstonecraft (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rig…)
"Sermons to Young Women" by James Fordyce (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermons_to_Young_Women)
“Emile, or On Education” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education)
A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters by Dr. John Gregory (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Father%27s_Legacy_to_H…)
Memoir of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by William Godwin (gutenberg.org/files/16199/16199-h/16199-h.htm)
Modern Woman: the Lost Sex by Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Woman:_The_Lost_Sex)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice)
Catherine Macaulay (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Macaulay)
Edmund Burke (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke)
Declaration of the Rights of Man (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Right…)
Virginia Woolf’s essay on Mary Wollstonecraft (gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301251h.html#e16)
Mary: A Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary:_A_Fiction)
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