ABSTRACT
The unfinished state that the novel is in adds a certain sense of enormity regarding the work that remained to be done before there could be anything resembling equality for women. In The Wrongs of Woman the stultifying political and social condition of women’s lives – the result of oppressive laws and customs – is more evidently on display. This novel focuses on the struggles towards political and legal independence of women enslaved by society. The political story that is told in Mary Wollstonecraft’s, a Fiction is that women are politically positioned as prey; they are bartered in property games played by men and left unable to deliberate over anything other than the spoils of lives that were never quite theirs to live. Ann’s health deteriorates and Mary decides to take her to Lisbon, hoping that her friend might recover in the warmer climate.
