Review of Jennifer Lorch, Mary Wollstonecraft: The Making of a Radical Feminist (1990); and Janet Todd, ed., A Wollstonecraft Anthology (1990)

Abstract

Considers these books important both to those interested specifically in Wollstonecraft and to feminist scholars in general. Reviews the contents of Todd’s anthology, a work originally published in 1977 but now back in print. Sketches the argument of Lorch’s book, which Broder finds particularly helpful in explaining how people other than Gilbert Imlay and William Godwin influenced Wollstonecraft’s ideas about women’s rights.