From the Rights of Men to Revolutionary Feminism

Abstract

A Vindication of the Rights of Men was published at the end of November 1790 and transformed Wollstonecraft from a successful — for a woman, very successful — but obscure hack-writer to a social critic and public figure. Yet she may not have written the Vindication but for Henry Fuseli and Joseph Johnson. Fuseli had the broad classical, literary and artistic knowledge to inform her break from women’s writing into political polemics, and Johnson shamed her into completing the work when she was ready to give it up halfway through. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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