Written as "an effort to ameliorate the moral and social condition of women ... This treatise was greeted and endorsed with great enthusiasm by the press, which commended it to the reading public, clergy, and legislators. In short, the author probes the reasons why, during his day, marriage was denied to many men and women in various sections of society ... In order to support themselves, he writes, thousands of women are driven to become victims of an immoral lifestyle or forced to seek jobs in households as governesses or teachers for inadequate pay"--Bookdealer's description

Excerpt from Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs: A Dying Legacy "If you think it right to differ from the times, and to make a stand for any valuable point of morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated, however pedantic it may appear - do it, not for insolence, but seriously and grandly - as a man who wore a soul of his own in his bosom, and did not wait until it was breathed into him by the breath of fashion. Let men call you mean, if you know that you are just - hypocritical, if you are honestly religious - pusillanimous, if you feel that you are firm; resistance soon converts unprincipled wit into sincere respect, and no after-time can tear from you those feelings which every man carries within him, who has made a noble and successful exertion in a virtuous cause." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"The well known essayist supports extending educational opportunities for women, but opposed the woman suffrage movement. She attacks the view that women are constitutionally weaker than men and limited to the domestic sphere. She calls for liberal education with open occupational opportunities. She did not believe that woman suffrage would solve the problem of economic discrimination and favored indirect political influence for women. Dodge was a teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, later moving to Washington DC and writing under her pseudonym, Mary Abigail Dodge."--Description from Second Life Books, Inc., bookseller