Wollstonecraft's works:

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The following bibliography was taken from Todd, Janet. Mary Wollstonecraft: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1976.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: With Reflections on Female Conduct, In the More Important Duties of Life . London: Joseph Johnson, 1787.

---. Mary: A Fiction. London: Joseph Johnson, 1788.

---. Original Stories from Real Life: With Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness . London: Joseph Johnson, 1788.

---. Translation of Jacques Necker's On the Importance of Religious Opinions. London: Joseph Johnson, 1788.

---. The Female Reader: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected From the Best Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads: For the Improvement of Young Women. London: Joseph Johnson, 1789.

---. Translation of Madame de Cambon's Young Grandison . London: Joseph Johnson, 1790.

---. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, In a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. London: Joseph Johnson, 1790.

---. Translation of Christian Gotthilf Salzmann's Elements of Morality for the Use of Children. London: Joseph Johnson, 1790-1.

---. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects . London: Joseph Johnson, 1792.   see image

---. An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution; and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe. London: Joseph Johnson, 1794.

---. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: Joseph Johnson, 1796.

---. Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. William Godwin, ed. London: Joseph Johnson, 1798.     Includes:

• The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment
• Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation.
• Letters.
• Fragment of Letters on the Management of Infants.
• Letters to Mr. Johnson, Bookseller, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
• Extract of the Cave of Fancy. A Tale.
• On Poetry, and Our Relish for the Beauties of Nature.
• Hints.

Wollstonecraft contributed reviews to the Analytical Review from the summer of 1788 until her death in 1797.  Since the reviews in The Analytical Review are unsigned, in most cases it is impossible to state with certainty whether or not Wollstonecraft is the author of a particular review.  The review of Catherine Macaulay's Letters on Education has been ascribed to Wollstonecraft and contains material later used in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.  Because of its interest, it has been included here. [Janet Todd's note]

---. Analytical Review, VIII, September-December 1790, 241-254.

Mary Wollstonecraft's complete works have been recently published in: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd, ed. 7 vols.  London:  Pickering and Chatto, 1989.

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