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She depicts wollstonecroft as a searcher and teacher who sought to define a role for women that included men and was founded on an appreciation of domesticity and motherhood and an abhorrance of violence

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Many writers including those in her own time depicted wollstonecroft as an idealist whose practice fell short of her principles

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I am sorry i waited 40 years to read about this fascinating woman

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I have a feeling the high ratings of this book are due to its only being read by a particular audience people interested in feminist history

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The author is painstakingly thorough in her research

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I found her life and accomplishments fascinating and was sad she died so young

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It was the philosopher hegel who first saw the enigmatic significnce of the generation of the french revolution calling it a birth time

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Thus almost two centuries before its time we see the prophetic birth of feminism and the gestating protest against the place of women in society