Sidetracks by Richard Holmes

Author:Richard Holmes [ Holmes, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780007380312
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2011-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

In fact the first six of Godwin’s chapters concentrate almost exclusively on Wollstonecraft’s intellectual development, through the particular influence of the radical Unitarian Dr Richard Price, through her experience of teaching at Newington Green, through her journeys to Lisbon and Dublin, through her reading of Burke and Rousseau and translating for the Analytical, and through the ‘vehement concussion’ produced by the general ideas of the French Revolution. It is true that he does not analyse her feminism in any detail, but he makes it clear at every point that he regarded the Rights of Woman as her major work and the one that she was ‘destined’ to write. He regards it as her ‘most celebrated production’ and her outstanding contribution to ‘the public welfare and improvement’. He saw it as the focus of her career, and the passion of her life.

Never did any author enter into a cause, with a more ardent desire to be found … an effectual champion. She considered herself as standing forth in defence of one half of the human species, labouring under a yoke which, through all the records of time, had degraded them from the station of rational beings … She regarded her sex, in the language of Calista, as ‘in every state of life the slaves of man’: the rich as alternately under the despotism of a father, a brother, and a husband, and the middling and poorer classes shut out from the acquisition of bread with independence.

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