The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin

Author:Claire Tomalin [Tomalin, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141912264
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2009-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

But this was not the official view; in the spring of 1792, about the time the Vindication appeared in French, both Etta d'Aelders and Olympe de Gouges were given the opportunity of addressing the Assemblée. Olympe spoke on a political matter unconnected with feminism, and the Baroness asked for divorce laws, equal educational opportunities and the same majority age for both sexes. During this same spring the Jacobin club gave an admiring reception to a notorious young woman called Théroigne de Méricourt who had decided to lend her support to the Revolution. She was attractive, and had a flair for publicizing herself; her lovers had made her rich, and now she took to going about Paris in a riding habit and making speeches to other women:

It is time at last that women should throw aside their shameful inactivity in which ignorance, pride, and the injustice of men have kept them for so long. Let us return to the times when our mothers, the Gauls and proud Germans, spoke in the public Assemblies, and fought beside their husbands.6

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