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Janet Todd, scholar of early women writers, examines Wollstonecraft's love-hate relationship with the character and writings of Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Series exploring the work of philosopher, writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
Janet Todd of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, a renowned scholar of early women writers, examines Wollstonecraft's love-hate relationship with the character and writings of the great Swiss Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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