Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life
Caroline Franklin
259 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 033397252X
ISBN13:
Language: English
Publish: July 12, 2004
This study argues that protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women’s role in spreading literacy, but this became politicized in the 1790s. Wollstonecraft’s literary vocation was shaped by the expectations of the power of print to educate and reform individuals and society, in the radical circles of the Unitarian publisher Joseph Johnson.