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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton Critical Edition)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Norton Critical Edition Author:Mary Wollstonecraft The present Norton Critical Edition fills, for the first time, the need for an accurate and scholarly edition of this influential work. Previous editions had nearly always been printed in unauthorized revisions of Wollstonecraft's own prose, and never with explanatory footnotes - thereby rendering them difficult to use in the classroom. In t... more »his edition, therefore, the editor carefully reprints the second edition of 1792, the last published with Wollstonecraft's own blessing. She has also provided extensive (and needed)annotations. The text is replete with tag lines from other authors, and every effort has been made to trace these, both to elucidate Wollstonecraft's large meaning and to chart the breadth of her thinking and reading.
At the end of the volume are a chronology of Mary Wollstonecraft's life and an especially useful bibliography.« less