In the Spring semester of 2025, the editorial team of Eileen M. Hunt (textual editor), Rachel Lentz (editorial assistant), and Nancy E. Johnson (volume editor) created this draft standard edition of Wollstonecraft's 1790 treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Men (VRM), based on the scans of the Notre Dame Rare Book and Special Collection Library's copies of the 1st edition and the 2nd (author corrected) edition of VRM, and the OCR text files of VRM created from those scans.
We have published this draft standard edition of VRM on this site as a digital humanities scholarly and teaching resource in an accessible and searchable PDF format. At the back of this draft digital edition, you will find the endnotes that contain a comprehensive list of textual variants between the 1st and 2nd editions of VRM.
This is a first draft of our standard edition of VRM for Oxford University Press. Any citations from it should use the following language to give credit to the scholars who created it:
Please cite as draft of Eileen M. Hunt, ed., Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, forthcoming in Vol. 4 of Wollstonecraft’s Collected Works, editorial assistant Rachel Lentz, volume editor Nancy E. Johnson, and editor-in-chief Emma Clery (under contract, Oxford University Press, expected 2028).
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