Wollstonecraft's bold argument that women are rational beings entitled to education and equality. A founding text of feminism.
Books mentioned in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (7)
Essays Moral and Literary by Vicesimus Knox: “slavery of any kind is unfavourable to human happiness and improvement.'--'Knox's Essays'.”
Meditations and Contemplations by James Hervey: “True--and Hervey's Meditations are still read, though he equally sinned against sense and taste.”
A Father's Legacy to His Daughters by John Gregory: “Such paternal solicitude pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters, that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect”
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell: “I allude to various biographical writings, but particularly to Boswell's Life of Johnson.”
The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day: “the little indirect advice, that is scattered through Sandford and Merton, be excepted”
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith: “In Dr. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, I have found a general character of people of rank and fortune”
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “Yet, in the following lines, Milton seems to coincide with me, when he makes Adam thus expostulate with his Maker:-- "Hast thou not made me here thy substitute, And these inferior far beneath me set?”
Books that mention A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1)
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published only forty years ago, had inspired waves of loud, proud feminists”