![]() Unlike earlier paperback editions of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria, this edition offers copious annotations, headnotes, relevant context selections, and reviews of Wollstonecraft’s posthumous publication.įrom A Report from the Committee appointed to Enquire into the State of the Private Madhouses in this Kingdom (1763). ![]() Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events and a guide for further inquiry and study. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. A wealth of cultural contexts bearing on the “wrongs” of woman (their social and political oppression) in the 18 th century and on the development of the Gothic and realist novel further clarify these two texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mellor and Noelle Chao, for the first time pairs Wollstonecraft’s feminist tract, the first in English letters, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with her unfinished novel, The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria.īy putting tract and novel together, this text presents a far richer and more complex discussion of Wollstonecraft’s political and literary opinions. From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Wollstonecraft, edited by Anne K. ![]()
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