Document Type
Working Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Abstract
This paper examines the life of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), the wife of the philosopher William Goodwin and mother of Mary Shelley author of Frankenstein, through the prism of the principles of conduct set out in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman that Mary Wollstonecraft wrote over the period 1790 to 1792. In particular the paper focuses on the role of reason, virtue, and knowledge developed in A Vindication in establishing principles of conduct and the extent to which Mary’s own conduct can be reconciled with the precepts she advocated.
DOI
10.21427/D7DJ26
Recommended Citation
Carruthers, S. (2009) The life of Mary Wollstonecroft and the Principles of Conduct Put Forward in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". Working paper.
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Publication Details
This is an unpublished working paper that has not been peer-reviewed.