Mary Wollstonecraft Medication Of The Rights Of Women

In a time when women’s education was not a prominent focus of society, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote The Vindication of the Rights of Women to discuss the significance in girls obtaining a more rightly education in order to prosper as a society. Mary Wollstonecraft focused her writing on calling attention to the disparity between the image presented of women by society with that of the truth of women and their capabilities. Wollstonecraft believed that every person, no matter their age, gender or social class had an individual mind that they had the right to express, a concept she promoted in The Vindication of the Rights of Men. Wollstonecraft would have been unable to voice these radical ideas if it weren’t for Minister Richard Price inviting
From 1782 until 1785, Mary Wollstonecraft served as a congregant at the Unitarian chapel at Newington Green as a translator and reviewer for publisher Joseph Johnson for his Analytical Review. During her work there, Johnson often hosted meetings and dinners, during which Wollstonecraft became acquainted with Minister Richard Price. Through her friendship with Dr. Price, she entered a circle of intellectuals, philosophers and radicals, consisting of Joseph Priestley, Thomas Paine, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and William Godwin. Mary Wollstonecraft was recruited into this group as the only woman. These men spoke amongst one another of their beliefs that were against the norm, and distinguished them from the rest of society, which consisted of those that supported, both ideologically and economically, the Anglican Church. Despite Wollstonecraft retaining her Anglican faith, she managed to make good bonds with these men and voiced her opinion. By addressing the negative connotations affiliated with women’s education in
In November of 1789, Dr. Price gave a speech to the Society for Commemorating the Glorious Revolution of 1688. In this speech, he defended the right of the French people to rebel against the hierarchy in France and challenged the monarchy, suggesting that the people of England should be able to choose their own rulers as well. This speech alarmed Edmund Burke, who was a Member of Parliament. In 1790, Edmund Burke wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he defended the monarchy of England and attacked the beliefs of Dr. Price on natural rights and promoted the hierarchy of England. Witnessing Dr. Price’s beliefs being ripped apart by Burke, a displeased Mary Wollstonecraft felt the need to voice her opinion once again, and went to work on A Vindication of the Rights of Men. The novel was widely impactful, as she attacked Burke as being blind to the plight of the poor, and denounced the injustices of the British hierarchy. Wollstonecraft remarked that the British constitution was composed of injustices, created by “the minds of men were shackled by the grossest prejudices and most immoral superstition.” She commented on the notion that the government only provides for those of the aristocracy, stating “Security of property! Behold, in a few words, the definition of English liberty. . . . But softly—it is only the property of the rich that is secure; the man