Living during the agitations for the union of England and Scotland, he took part as a Jacobite in the war of pamphlets inaugurated and sustained by prominent men on both sides of the Border, and he crossed swords with no less redoubtable a foe than Daniel Defoe in his Advantages of the Act of Security compared with those of the intended Union ( Edinburgh, 1707 ), and A Vindication of the Same against Mr De Foe ( ibid.

Among his works are Ladensium Aὐτοκατάκρισις, an answer to Lysimachus Nicanor by John Corbet in the form of an attack on Laud and his system, in reply to a publication which charged the Covenanters with Jesuitry ; Anabaptism, the true Fountain of Independency, Brownisme, Antinomy, Familisme, etc., a sermon which he criticises the rise of the early Baptist churches in England such as those lead by Thomas Lambe ; An Historical Vindication of the Government of the Church of Scotland ; The Life of William ( Laud ) now Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Examined ( London, 1643 ); A Parallel of the Liturgy with the Mass Book, the Breviary, the Ceremonial and other Romish Rituals ( London, 1661 ).

It was answered first by David Jennings in A Vindication of the Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin ( anonymous, 1740 ).

In 1792 she published the work for which she is best remembered, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in the spirit of rationalism extending Price's arguments about equality to women: Tomalin argues that just as the Dissenters were " excluded as a class from education and civil rights by a lazy-minded majority ", so too were women, and the " character defects of both groups " could be attributed to this discrimination.

* Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by Lyndall Gordon.

", was attacked by Robert South in Animadversions on Dr. Sherlock's Vindication ( 1693 ).

* John Vanbrugh-A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife, from Immorality and Prophaneness by the Author

* Life of Michael Bruce, Poet of Loch Leven, by James Mackenzie. A restatement of the case for Bruce's authorship, coupled with a rather violent attack on Logan, is to be found in the with Vindication of his Authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo " and other Poems, also Copies of Letters written by John Logan, first published ( 1905 ),

Wood was attacked by Bishop Burnet in A letter to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ( 1693 ), and defended by his nephew Dr Thomas Wood, in a Vindication of the Historiographer, to which is added the Historiographer's Answer ( 1693 ), reproduced in the subsequent editions of the Athenae.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ) is one of the first works that can unambiguously be called feminist, although by modern standards her comparison of women to the nobility, the elite of society ( coddled, fragile, and in danger of intellectual and moral sloth ) may at first seem dated as a feminist argument.

For example, shortly before his appointment was announced, Austin published a sonnet entitled A Vindication of England, written in response to a series of sonnets by William Watson, published in the Westminster Gazette, that had accused Salisbury's government of betraying Armenia and abandoning its people to Turkish massacres.

A Vindication of Lord Byron ( 1869 ) – Published by Chapman & Hall

He is the author of several books, including Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre, defending the three American Patriots who captured the spy Major John Andre, which led to the discovery of the plot to surrender West Point to the British by Benedict Arnold.

He asserted in his Vindication that his preaching there was accidental ; he was sent for by the House of Commons and confined to the house during the negotiations.

* Nathaniel Lardner, Vindication of Three of Our Saviour's Miracles ( 1729 ), Lardner being one of those who did not approve of the prosecution of Woolston ( see Lardner's Life by Andrew Kippis, in Lardner's Works, vol.

It lies about from Vindication Island, separated by the Nelson Channel.

Therefore, he wrote a jestful retort, A Short Vindication of The Relapse and The Provok'd Wife From Immorality and Prophaneness ( 1698 ); in his pamphlet, Vanbrugh accuses Collier of being more upset by the unflattering depictions of clergymen than actual blasphemy ( Cordner 217 ).

Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller has been considered the first major feminist work in the United States and is often compared to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

The publication of this work drew a swift response, first with Rights of Man ( 1791-2 ) by Thomas Paine, and then with A Vindication of the Rights of Man ( 1792 ) by Mary Wollstonecraft.

In 1876 Gibbons published The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft.

" On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft ’ s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ".

* Mellor, Anne K. " Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the women writers of her day ".

A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft.

* Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is published.

* Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

* Fawcett wrote the introduction to the 1891 edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

* Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792

Mary Wollstonecraft, then about 33, published Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792.

Many consider Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ) to be the source of the reformers ' long-running campaign for feminist inclusion and the origin of the Women's Suffrage movement.

* Mary Wollstonecraft-A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Modern scholars have suggested Woman in the Nineteenth Century was the first major women's rights work since Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ), though an early comparison between the two women came from George Eliot in 1855.

Mary Wollstonecraft ( 1759-1797 ) has been very influential in her writings as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman commented on society's view of the woman and encouraged women to use their voices in making decisions separate from decisions previously made for her.

Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ( 1792 ) claimed that women should enjoy the same legal and political rights as men on the grounds that they are human beings.

* Mary Wollstonecraft ( 1759 – 1797 ), English author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft senior wrote ' Vindication of the Rights of Women ' in 1792 and was a notable critic of the Whig MPEdmund Burke, a number of photographs of Mary can be seen in the Eva Hart.

Wollstonecraft said that he left England to escape the notoriety of his aunt Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Other significant victims include author Jean Webster, English queens Jane Seymour and Katherine Parr ( both wives of Henry VIII ), housekeeping authority Isabella Beeton, and Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.

It appears that he and his wife were landlords at Walworth in the late 1770s to a family that included the 18 year old Mary Wollstonecraft ; it is not clear whether the future author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman actually knew the Taylors, as at that age she left home for a job as a lady's companion.

Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft.

William Godwin ( 1756-1836 ), an anarchist philosopher, was a Chapel Minister in Ware ; his feminist wife Mary Wollstonecraft ( 1759-1797 ), author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, gave him a daughter, Mary Shelley ( 1797-1851 ), who wrote Frankenstein.