Catharine Macaulay's reply to Burke on the French Revolution has never been reprinted, but takes its place alongside Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men as the immediate response of the radical left, preceding Priestley, Mackintosh and Paine. The leading professional historian of her day, Macaulay was a personal friend of Washington, and had Volumes 1-5 of her History of England translated into French by Mirabeau. Her Letters on Education 1790 (see p. 21 of this catalogue) contains the basic feminist positions ...
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Catharine Macaulay's reply to Burke on the French Revolution has never been reprinted, but takes its place alongside Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men as the immediate response of the radical left, preceding Priestley, Mackintosh and Paine. The leading professional historian of her day, Macaulay was a personal friend of Washington, and had Volumes 1-5 of her History of England translated into French by Mirabeau. Her Letters on Education 1790 (see p. 21 of this catalogue) contains the basic feminist positions taken up by Wollstonecraft in her second Vindication.
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Add this copy of On Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution 1790 to cart. $29.30, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Woodstock Books.
