![]() ![]() Mary was once again worked into fiction, but this time not as a cautionary moral tale, but as goals. In the 1880s, biographies began to appear. But what became an even greater inspiration was Wollstonecraft’s life. Eliot wrote in 1855 “there is in some quarters a vague prejudice against the Rights of Woman as in some way or other a reprehensible book” However, Eliot noted, “readers who go to it with this impression will be surprised to find it eminently serious, severely moral, and withal rather heavy.”Ī Vindication of the Rights of Woman came back into fashion with women authors and activists in the mid 19th century. ![]() Her personal story was used by other women authors as a cautionary moral tale: don’t be like Mary.Ī century later, the great George Eliot was apparently surprised to find Vindication so serious. It scandalized the late 18th (and early 19th) century reading public so badly that her books fell out of fashion. His book, published after her death, included news of her affairs, attempt at suicide, and child out of wedlock. Although influential in its time, this call for women’s education went out of print for a century, following the scandal created by her husband’s (William Godwin) memoirs. Wollstonecrafts Vindication of the Rights of Men, was a vigorous attack, probably the first, on Burke and his Reflections. ![]()
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