"Those historical laurels which once graced my brow are now in their wane": Catharine Macaulay's last years and legacy.(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in Romanticism | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Looser, Devoney | Copyright information

IN HER A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN (1792), MARY Wollstonecraft praises her predecessor, Catharine Macaulay. Wollstonecraft deems Macaulay, who had died the previous year, "the woman of the greatest abilities" ever produced by Great Britain and expresses grief at her passing: "When I first thought of writing these strictures I anticipated Mrs. Macaulay's approbation, with a little of the sanguine ardour, which it has been the business of my life to depress; but soon heard w...

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