Maria: Or, the Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Book Overview

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. Left uncompleted at Wollstonecraft's early death, Maria remains a powerful work of propaganda, a unique picture of women's status in eighteenth-century England.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393311694
• ISBN13: 9780393311693
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"