Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman: by Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman: by Mary Wollstonecraft by Mary Wollstonecraft
English | July 10, 2017 | ASIN: B073VY1Y6R | 127 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | July 10, 2017 | ASIN: B073VY1Y6R | 127 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.
In 'Maria, ' Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.' Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtually the property of their husbands.