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2: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women
CLAIRE TOMALINtalks about the writings of Mary Wollstone craft which pioneered causes to be taken up by feminists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her ideas appear not only in her treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but in her little-known novel Maria and her letters.
(Next Tuesday: Edmund Burke and ' Reflections on the Revolutions in France

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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstone
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Edmund Burke
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