CONTENTS

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Texts and abbreviations

1 Introduction

Claudia L. Johnson

2 Mary Wollstonecraft’s letters

Janet Todd

3 Mary Wollstonecraft on education

Alan Richardson

4 Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications and their political tradition

Chris Jones

5 Mary Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution

Tom Furniss

6 Mary Wollstonecraft’s literary reviews

Mitzi Myers

7 The religious foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft’s feminism

Barbara Taylor

8 Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction

Vivien Jones

9 Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the women writers of her day

Anne K. Mellor

10 Mary Wollstonecraft and the poets

Susan J. Wolfson

11 Mary Wollstonecraft’s novels

Claudia L. Johnson

12 Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark: traveling with Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary A. Favret

13 Mary Wollstonecraft and the sexuality of genius

Andrew Elfenbein

14 Mary Wollstonecraft’s reception and legacies

Cora Kaplan

Select bibliography

Index