Maria Or The Wrongs Of Woman
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creator: Wollstonecraft, Mary
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subject: mind
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subject: mary
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full text: [pg/etext94/maria10.txt] Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft May, 1994 [Etext #134] This etext was originally made by Judith Boss, Omaha, Nebraska. The equipment: an IBM-compatible 486/33, Hewlett-Packard ScanJet IIc flatbed scanner, and, donated by Calera: M/Series Profesional Software M/Series Accelerator Card Calera Recognition Systems 475 Potrero Sunnyvale, CA 94086 1-408-720-8300 Email to Calera's Mike Lynch: mikel@calera.com This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. ================================================================ In editing the electronic text I have put footnotes at the bottom of the paragraph to which they refer. This sometimes means that I have moved the text of the footnote to maintain proximity to the text to which it refers. Spellings as in the original are retained; only obvious typographical errors have been corrected. ================================================================ MARIA or The Wrongs of Woman by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759-1797) After the edition of 1798 CONTENTS Preface by William S. Godwin Author's Preface Maria ================================================================ MARIA or The Wrongs of Woman PREFACE THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt of an author, whose fame has been uncommonly extensive, and whose talents have probably been most admired, by the persons by whom talents are estimated with the greatest accuracy and discrimination. There are few, to whom her writings could in any case have given pleasure, that would have wished that this fragment should have been suppressed, because it is a fragment. There is a sentiment, very dear to minds of taste and imagination, that finds a melancholy delight in contemplating these unfinished productions of genius, these sketches of what, if they had been filled up in a manner adequate to the writer's conception, would perhaps have given a new impulse to the manners of a world. The purpose and structure of the following work, had lo…