num_pages: 138
description: In Maria  Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.' Her story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws which made women virtually the property of their husbands.
language: English
title: Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company