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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Non-Fiction, Biography & Memoir, International Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9780141018911
Published: December 2004
Imprint: Penguin
Page Extent: 144
Format: Paperback
RRP 215.00

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.

About the Author

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) was a writer and founding feminist philosopher. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is her most famous work, but she also wrote novels, treatises and a history of the French Revolution, many of whose events she witnessed first-hand in Paris. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter, Mary Shelley.

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