160. Mary Wollstonecraft — A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Susan J. Wolfson
Joining us to discuss Mary Wollstonecraft's extraordinary life and her seminal work, A Vindication on the Rights of Woman, is Dr. Susan J. Wolfson, a professor of English from Princeton University whose scholarship focuses on British Writers of the Romantic period. Her latest book, On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, was published in April 2023 by Columbia University Press.
Discussed:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Susan J. Wolfson
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Shelley
"Thoughts on the Education of Daughters" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"A Vindication of the Rights of Men" by Mary Wollstonecraft
"Sermons to Young Women" by James Fordyce
“Emile, or On Education” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters by Dr. John Gregory
Memoir of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by William Godwin
Modern Woman: the Lost Sex by Ferdinand Lundberg and Marynia F. Farnham
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Declaration of the Rights of Man