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A pioneer champion of women's rights illustrates the grim reality of 18th-century England's draconian marriage laws in the tale of a wife locked up in an asylum by her abusive spouse. Combining the spirited rhetoric of a philosophy with a narrative as gripping as any gothic fiction, this is the book that laid the groundwork for modern feminism.Wollstonecraft, Mary is the author of 'Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780486445038 and ISBN 0486445038.
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