Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
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ISBN: 0393311694 / Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, January 1994
In Maria, Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.'
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Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtually the property of their husbands.
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