Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) (see “Wollstonecraft [later Godwin], Mary”) is a key text within the Revolution Controversy, a pamphlet war prompted by dissenting minster Richard Price’s sermon “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country.” This sermon was delivered in 1789 at the Old Jewry in London for the Revolution Society anniversary celebration of the Glorious Revolution. Price also expressed support for the French Revolution, favorably comparing it to England’s own revolutionary past and the enshrining of a limited monarchy in the Declaration of Right (1689). This sermon prompted a series of replies, with the most memorable being those by Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men argues in favor of republicanism, defends the inalienable rights of men and offers a scathing reply to Burke’s defense of constitutional monarchy in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which had been published just a month earlier.

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Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Sara Fernandes

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Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) (see “Wollstonecraft [later Godwin], Mary”) is a key text within the Revolution Controversy, a pamphlet war prompted by dissenting minster Richard Price’s sermon “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country.” This sermon was delivered in 1789 at the Old Jewry in London for the Revolution Society anniversary celebration of the Glorious Revolution. Price also expressed support for the French Revolution, favorably comparing it to England’s own revolutionary past and the enshrining of a limited monarchy in the Declaration of Right (1689). This sermon prompted a series of replies, with the most memorable being those by Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine. Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men argues in favor of republicanism, defends the inalienable rights of men and offers a scathing reply to Burke’s defense of constitutional monarchy in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), which had been published just a month earlier.