Mary Wollstonecraft"The bombshell that exploded with the most impact on the American scene was Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in the United States in 1794. Throughout the entire history of the woman's rights movement this book remained a source of inspiration not only to the leaders of the agitation but also to many educated women in general..."
~Israel Kugler in From Ladies to Women: The Organized Struggle for Woman's Rights in the Reconstruction Era |