Wollstonecraft's Vindication Drafted
1791
Mary Wollstonecraft, a London schoolmistress who had gone to Paris to watch the Revolution, began drafting a reply to those who wanted liberty for men only. Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman would appear the following year - the first major argument in English that women were rational beings deserving education and civic existence.
In context
Also in 1791 (5 other events on record)
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.