Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
Mary Wollstonecraft
- The
- pamphlet
- consists
- of
- a
- number
- of
- short
- treatises,
- indicating
- certain
- laws
- and
- principles
- which
- Mary
- thought
- needed
- to
- be
- more
- generally
- understood
- and
- more
- firmly
- established.
- Many
- passages
- show
- that
- as
- early
- as
- 1787
- she
- had
- seriously
- considered
- the
- problems
- which,
- in
- 1791,
- she
- attempted
- to
- solve.
- She
- was
- even
- then
- perplexed
- by
- the
- unfortunate
- situation
- of
- women
- of
- the
- upper
- classes
- who,
- having
- received
- but
- the
- pretence
- of
- an
- education,
- eventually
- become
- dependent
- on
- their
- own
- exertions.
- Her
- sad
- experience
- probably
- led
- her
- to
- these
- thoughts.
- Re?ection
- upon
- them
- made
- her
- the
- champion
- of
- her sex.
