Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Chapter 1 Scripturally Annotated: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- List of Contentmatter
- Dedication
- Advertisement
- Introduction
- Chapter I The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
- Chapter II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
- Chapter III The Same Subject Continued
- Chapter IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes
- Chapter V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
- Chapter VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character
- Chapter VII Modesty—Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue
- Chapter VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation
- Chapter IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
- Chapter X Parental Affection
- Chapter XI Duty to Parents
- Chapter XII On National Education
- Chapter XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce
- Chapter 2 Ripe for Revolution and Revelation
- Chapter 3 A Biblical Accounting for the Equality of Women
- Chapter 4 Femme Godwin and Her Religion
- Chapter 5 The Crafters of Wollstonecraft’s Religion
- Chapter 6 Fellow Heirs, Travelers, and Sojourners
- Chapter 7 Postmortem Rendering of Wollstonecraft’s Beliefs
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Scripturally Annotated: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft
- Chapter 1 Scripturally Annotated: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- List of Contentmatter
- Dedication
- Advertisement
- Introduction
- Chapter I The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered
- Chapter II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
- Chapter III The Same Subject Continued
- Chapter IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes
- Chapter V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt
- Chapter VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has Upon the Character
- Chapter VII Modesty—Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue
- Chapter VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation
- Chapter IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society
- Chapter X Parental Affection
- Chapter XI Duty to Parents
- Chapter XII On National Education
- Chapter XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; With Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement that a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce
- Chapter 2 Ripe for Revolution and Revelation
- Chapter 3 A Biblical Accounting for the Equality of Women
- Chapter 4 Femme Godwin and Her Religion
- Chapter 5 The Crafters of Wollstonecraft’s Religion
- Chapter 6 Fellow Heirs, Travelers, and Sojourners
- Chapter 7 Postmortem Rendering of Wollstonecraft’s Beliefs
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
What follows is a copy of the first edition (1792) of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman published by Joseph Johnson. The only changes in this copy to the original were the replacing of double quotation for single quotation marks around quotes, replac-ing a modern “s” for the long “s,” adding notations, and formatting. Inconsistent spellings and punctuation and grammatical errors have remained untouched. The purpose of reproducing this edition was not to edit it but to identify in the original edition its biblical rhetoric, moral undergirding, quotes, concepts, and references. Wollstonecraft’s notes have been removed as well since none of them are relevant to this biblical study. All biblical references are from the King James Bible (KJB), the 1769 version edited by Benjamin Blayney and published by Oxford University Press. Since this was considered “our Authorized version” in 1792, it was most likely the version that Wollstonecraft read. It included the Apocrypha, fourteen books that are in the Vulgate, but Jerome declared them not to be Scripture Legitimate. The controversy about its inclusion as being too “Catholic” for Protestant tastes was already festering and but would not be eliminated until 1826. Given Wollstonecraft’s anti-Catholic stance, none of the citations below will come from the Apocrypha, with the assumption that Wollstonecraft would not have read these books and would not have considered them canonical.
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- Wollstonecraft and Religion , pp. 9 - 11Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2024