Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The 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 the patriarchal institution...