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Genre:
"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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"Body"
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Date: December 1790
"A few fundamental truths meet the first enquiry of reason, and appear as clear to an unwarped mind, as that air and bread are necessary to enable the body to fulfil its vital functions; but the opinions which men discuss with so much heat must be simplified and brought back to first principles; ...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)