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  • 5 - Who Owns Maria

  • Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    History and the Law
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 January 2020, pp 110-129

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 continues the discussion of Chapter 4 through a consideration of the unfinished manuscript that Mary Wollstonecraft left behind at her death: The Wrongs of Women; or Maria. Under coverture, William Godwin owned Wollstonecraft’s writing during their brief marriage and after she died. Copyright law, as experienced by men and women, is discussed in relation to coverture. Wollstonecraft’s polemic in the novel, on the law of marriage, is discussed in relation to the working-class figure of Jemima, whose own account of the law focuses the next chapter.