Fun fact: Mary Wollestonecraft's daughter, Mary Shelly, is the author of Frankenstein.

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Hi. Actually Wollstonecraft was not the first European to write a book-long treatise on the rights of women. In 1673 François Poullain de La Barre wrote "De l’Égalité des deux sexes, discours physique et moral où l’on voit l’importance de se défaire des préjugés".

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Really like your channel. There is any book on women in the French Revolution where we can get more information?

Reading about the French Revolution was one of the factors that helped me abandon belief in political leftism.

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This lecture series inspired me for my history essay (I'm a french feminist philosophy student and taking history as an elective). I got a high distinction :) Thanks.

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My Euro class just finished an Enlightment Salon(Legit a week ago I was waving around a homemade copy of the Vindication of the Rights of Women), which basically we all had to pick a philosophe to impersonate and we discussed Enlightenment things over two days. It was my good luck to pick Mary Wollstonecraft with nothing else to go on other than a vague notion that she was a feminist. She is an awesome awesome person I would like to add that in order to get it out as soon as possible, her publisher and close friend Joseph Johnson printed each page as soon as she wrote it. In the middle of the process she broke down with nerves, and after seeing her state Johnson told her not to worry, he'd dispose of the work- which invigorated her to finish it. She actually went to Paris in 1789 to observe the French Rev before everything got all Robes Pierre-y That's where she met the father of her first child, Gilbert Imlay, who eventually broke her heart. She tried to commit suicide twice after that before picking up the pieces and moving on (her epic romance with William Godwin after that was what created Frankenstein writer Mary Shelley), which leads me to her best quote, and one of my favorite quotes of all time, “it appears to me impossible that I shall cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organized dust. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable-and life is more than a dream.” I could go on about Mary Wollstonecraft all day, she is amazing and worth further research

Hey Mr. Richey, I was wonder if you have, or can make a video on The Declaration of Independence, and what the Declaration of Independence's statement was and what it did for freedom in that time and now, and comparing the similarities of Thomas Jefferson and John Locke. Something dedicated to Unalienable Rights I guess. I'll be graduating high school later this year, and plan on writing something for graduation, about Freedom, Free Will, and Unalienable Rights. I have an idea how I want to go with it, I would just love to see your input! Thanks Mr. Richey for your time. Awesome videos by the way, they have really helped!

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How might Burke attempt to refute Wollstonecraft ???

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The French Revolution was not the first time women became politically active. Millenia of queens and women's political interest groups existed before the French Revolution.

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That’s quite a stretch to say that that was the first time that women began standing up for their rights, particularly as their have been and continue to be matriarchal societies. In many patriarchal societies, women had rights. In ancient societies, commoners, male and female, had only the rights afforded them by the monarchy, who could be kings or queens.

For a European book discussing the capability and deserved rights of women, what about Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies (1405)? Also, they were various organised women's political actions, including large marches on Parliament, in the UK during (and after) the civil war in the 1600s.

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Mary Wollstonecraft was pretty amazing. Although she outraged much of society and was famously called "a hyena in petticoats"! Read more about her here: www.janeausten.co.uk/mary-wollstonecraftthe-first-of-the-modern-feminists/

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Are there any more women who were guillotined except 4 that you talked about ?

The “B” in “Burke” stands for “Based”

Inherited natural. What's the difference? We're talking about the same thing here.

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As you state things, she did a horrible disservice to her own cause !! and Burke was not a Conservative, he was a Whig , this is the same mistake that people make about John Henry Newman To be anti-Liberal is in no way equatable to conservative, it can be Libertarian

Burke's view was not popular in 1791. The reason it became significant is because of how prescient Burke was. Wollstonecraft & Paine, who both refuted Burke, looked like fools when the Revolution became violent.

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As usual, Burke was correct.