A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Section summary
A brief note to readers. The work was planned in three parts, but fresh material made Wollstonecraft publish only the first. A second volume was promised on the laws relating to women and their particular duties. It never appeared.
WHEN I began to write this work, I divided it into three parts, supposing that one volume would contain a full discussion of the arguments which seemed to me to rise naturally from a few simple principles; but fresh illustrations occurring as I advanced, I now present only the first part to the public.
Many subjects, however, which I have cursorily alluded to, call for particular investigation, especially the laws relative to women, and the consideration of their peculiar duties. These will furnish ample matter for a second volume, which in due time will be published, to elucidate some of the sentiments, and complete many of the sketches begun in the first.