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The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edmon offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976 provid stoing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English The text of the work remains that of Woltstonecraft's second edition of 1792, for scholarship has vindicated that choice. The annotations have been greatly expanded.
The "Backgrounds" section documents more fully the early concern for women's education, with important extracts from the work of John Locke and Mary Astell, as well as three more of Catharine Macauley's influential "Letters on Education."
A new section, "The Wollstonecraft Debate," provides a wide spectrum of opinions about the woman herself, from the nastiness of Richard Polwhele to the adulation of William Blake. balanced by the reasonable assessments Of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
The "Criticism" section retains the historically important essays and adds the best recent essays.
The "Backgrounds" section documents more fully the early concern for women's education, with important extracts from the work of John Locke and Mary Astell, as well as three more of Catharine Macauley's influential "Letters on Education."
A new section, "The Wollstonecraft Debate," provides a wide spectrum of opinions about the woman herself, from the nastiness of Richard Polwhele to the adulation of William Blake. balanced by the reasonable assessments Of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
The "Criticism" section retains the historically important essays and adds the best recent essays.