Marks of Inferiority
Freya Johnston: Wollstonecraft’s Distinction, 4 February 2021
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion and Politics
by Sylvana Tomaselli.
Princeton, 230 pp., £25, December 2020,978 0 691 16903 3 Show More
by Sylvana Tomaselli.
Princeton, 230 pp., £25, December 2020,
“... our sex ought to endeavour to attain in the world.’ Six years before Wollstonecraft was born, Samuel Johnson had remarked, at once facetiously and in earnest, on the rise of ‘a generation of Amazons of the pen, who … have set masculine tyranny at defiance, asserted their claim to the regions of science, and seem resolved to contest the ... ”