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by Green (Editor)
This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.
Author Biography
Karen Green has been a pioneer in the movement to include women's philosophical texts in the history of philosophy, concentrating on their contributions to political and ethical thought. In 1995 she published The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought (Polity) and most recently A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 2014).
Number of Pages: 344
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: October 01, 2019
