Wollstonecraft's Daughters: Womanhood in England and France, 1780-1920Clarissa Campbell Orr This work explores Mary Wollstonecraft's 19th-century legacy in relation to three themes integral to her work: the nature of motherhood, religion and the empowerment of women, and women's contribution to the sciences of man. The introduction provides a comparative framework for French and English women and situates each essay within current historical debates. |
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Albertine Necker de Saussure and forcing little girls | 61 |
Elizabeth Hamilton | 79 |
the Victorian political hostess | 94 |
Woman supportive or woman manipulative? | 109 |
Mary Wollstonecraft and Flora Tristan one pariah | 121 |
alternative accounts | 135 |
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