The links between Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay

New Evidence

Bibliographic Data

ID3208096
AuthorsBridget Hill (corresponding author), Bridget T Hill (corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume4
Issue2
Pages177-192
Publication date1995-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWomen s History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09612029500200144
OpenAlexW4235450798
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Two recently discovered letters have finally established what has long been conjectured, that the English radicals Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay corresponded with each other. The occasion for the correspondence was the publication of responses by both women to Edmund Burke's Reflection on the Revolution in France. The article explores the nature of their responses and analyses the main differences between them. It concludes that the two women were remarkably close in their ideas on democracy, equality and women's rights ideas ultimately circumscribed by eighteenth-century radicals' notions of property and class

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