![]() ![]() Wollstonecraft inspired people because she spoke from the heart. “Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.” “I speak of the improvement and emancipation of the whole sex,” she declared. She insisted women should be free to enter business, pursue professional careers, and vote if they wished. ![]() ![]() She declared that both women and men were human beings endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Then along came passionate, bold Mary Wollstonecraft who caused a sensation by writing A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The husband and wife are one person in law that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband: under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs every thing. Women couldn’t retain a lawyer, sign a contract, inherit property, vote, or have rights over their children.Īs Oxford law professor William Blackstone noted in his influential Commentaries on the Laws of England (1758): In Western Europe during the late 18th century, single women had little protection under the law and married women lost their legal identity. ![]()
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