Wollstonecraft's Philosophical Impact on Nineteenth‐Century American Women's Rights Advocates

Abstract

This article challenges the thesis that the publication of William Godwin's scandalousMemoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Womanin 1798 minimized the philosophical impact of Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 work theRights of Womanin nineteenth‐century American political thought. Instead, we demonstrate that leading nineteenth‐century American women's rights advocates—Hannah Mather Crocker, Lucretia Mott, Sarah Grimké, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony—understood themselves to be in a critical, philosophical dialogue with the text of theRights of Woman, and in some cases, theMemoirs, and defined their own, distinctive philosophies of sex equality partly within this context.

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