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Wollstonecraft's nineteenth-century international reception in continental Europe, as in the Americas, was more widespread and positive than in her homeland of Britain.

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By focusing on her varied reception history, I show how Wollstonecraft's philosophy of women's rights as well as her biographical persona affected the development of feminism in nineteenth-century Europe.

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This page is a summary of: Wollstonecraft in Europe, 1792–1904: A Revisionist Reception History, History of European Ideas, October 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2012.725668.
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