1798, published posthumously by husband William Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft
The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria
B-
Although this is in some ways as depressing as Mary, A Fiction, it has more raw emotion and a stronger sense of the, well, wrongs of woman. The intervening decade between her two novels had both politicised Wollstonecraft and put her through a lot of emotional drama. This novel was not quite finished (there's at least one subplot left conspicuously dangling), but as it stands it's a promising tragedy. My favorite moment is at the end, when the hypocritical judge worries that it would set a bad precedent if women had more say in divorce.
Overall, weighting the shorter works less, this collection averages out to a B-.
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