Abstract
This article considers Maria's two representations of herself in The Wrongs of Woman: as a sexual subject in her memoir to her daughter, and as a would-be citizen in her letter to the judge. The Wrongs of Woman, although using the novel form, can be taken as the promised second volume of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, on the “partial laws” of England. I argue that it also revises the Vindication's view of feminine sensibility, and experiments with a more radical and generous account of sexuality. Contemporary discourses on which Wollstonecraft drew include popular printed reports of “Trials for Adultery”, especially concerning the civil action known as “Criminal Conversation”.
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