ABSTRACT
Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough’s impressively researched study of Wollstonecraft’s work originated as a PhD thesis at the University of Bern, in Switzerland. Published almost exactly one hundred years after Wollstonecraft’s death, the Study was the last significant assessment of her to appear in the nineteenth-century. It was also the first to make her work the subject of a fully academic analysis. The real strength of Rauschenbusch-Clough’s discussion lay in her investigation both of the sources of Wollstonecraft’s ideas and of their possible influence on later writers. The final part of the study was devoted to ‘The Reception of her Work in Germany’, and offered a ‘hypothesis that Theodor Gottleib von Hippel was indebted to her work for a radical change in his views’.
