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Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman was written in 1792 and is a book that should be essential reading for students of British literature for a number of reasons, including its historical value, its particular place in that history as a statement of the rights of women, and because of the place the book holds among social writings of the time. It is also an example of an early woman writer who challenges the established order and who uses literature as her means of speaking out to the world. At one time, Mary Wollstonecraft was as famous a writer as her daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, would become, but today it is clear that the daughter is much the better known of the two largely because of her marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley and because of her creation of the story embodied in her novel Frankenstein. Both mother and daughter were important proponents of the rights of women both in their writings and in the way they lived and served as role models......

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