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Event:

Mary Wollstonecraft, "Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation," not published during her lifetime. (It expresses some doubt in the revolutionaries.)

Topics:

*French Revolution  

Work Title

Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation 

Composed: 1793     

Essay 

Links for Mary Wollstonecraft:

Mary Wollstonecraft (Biographical notes, with some other resources.) (Kim Woodbridge)

Mary Wollstonecraft Page (Resources and links.) (Hariett Jump)

Heather E. Wallace, "Sophie: Woman's Educations According to Rousseau & Wollstonecraft" (Criticism of Mary Wollstonecraft's work.) (Michael Irvine)

Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 4 (Transcription of the work by Mary Wollstonecraft.) (Stuart Curran)

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Plain-text transcription of the text by Mary Wollstonecraft.) (Judith Boss)

Preface to The Female Reader (Transcription of the work by Mary Wollstonecraft.) (Rita Raley)

Mary Wollstonecraft, The Mary Wollstonecraft Page (contains the full text of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman) (UTEL)

 

Links for French Revolution:

(Constituent Assembly) Declaration of the Rights of Man (text put on line for the Avalon Project at Yale Univ.)

Fall of the Bastille (encyclopedia entry)

The French Revolution, 1789-1792 (site for high school students)

British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (reproduces contemporaneous British accounts of the French Revolution) (Alan Liu)

Let Them Eat Cake (hagiography by an independent scholar)

Maximilen Robespierre, Robespierre, Terror and Virtue (excerpt from Robespierre's On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy) (Paul Halsall)

The French Revolution, Moderate Stage, 1789-1792 (online lecture by an independent scholar) (Steven Kreis)

French Revolution, Radical Stage, 1792-1794 (online lecture by an independent scholar) (Steven Kreis)

 

Record Created or Last Modified By:

Shawn Mummert

Date Last Modified:

6/24/1999